Celebrating Nobel Prize in Physics, again!

Celebrating Nobel Prize in Physics, again!

Celebrating Nobel Prize: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, Nobel Prize laureates in Physics 2023 for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter Like every year, the award of the Nobel...
Optical characterization with a twist!

Optical characterization with a twist!

Optical Characterization – Spirals are ubiquitous in nature; why should laser beams be any different? Orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have attracted considerable interest in recent years due to their unique properties [1]: these beams possess a helical...
Plane optics quality control

Plane optics quality control

plane optics quality control NIGHTMARE, a rather average 1981 horror movie that yet perfectly recreates the TERROR of an optician confronted with a reflection on the back surface of a sample under test Windows, prisms, filters, mirrors, crystals…from the (so) precious...