In a peculiar twist, the researchers found that their orbital angular momentum-carrying beam of light grows in a mathematically recognizable pattern ... spiral that is seen in the shell of a ...

Senior scientist Anju Sharma took first prize in the Visualizing the Unseen category and Best in Show at this year's Art of ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be shaped into corkscrew-like forms, known as optical vortices, are used ...

The optical rotatum's logarithmic spiral follows a pattern often found in nature ... The optical rotatum grows in a spiral shape that is also present in the shell of a nautilus (a type of mollusk), ...

The optical rotatum's logarithmic spiral follows a pattern found often in nature ... their optical rotatum propagates in a logarithmic spiral that is seen in the shell of a nautilus, the seeds of a ...