Using a recently developed technique (SEA TADPOLE) for easily measuring the complete spatiotemporal electric field of light pulses with micrometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution, we directly demonstrate the formation of theo-called boundary diffraction wave and Arago's spot after an aperture, as well as the superluminal propagation of the spot. Our spatiotemporally resolved measure...

in the surgical treatment of malignant tumors, it is crucial to characterize the tumor as precisely as possible. the determination of the exact tumor location as well as the analysis of its properties is very important in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis as early as possible. in neurosurgical applications, the optical, non-invasive and in situ techniques allow for the label-free analysis o...

Despite much interest and progress in optical spatial cloaking, a three-dimensional (3D), transmitting, continuously multidirectional cloak in the visible regime has not yet been demonstrated. Here we experimentally demonstrate such a cloak using ray optics, albeit with some edge effects. Our device requires no new materials, uses isotropic off-the-shelf optics, scales easily to cloak arbitrari...

Designs of cloaking devices and more general invisible objects have primarily applied the techniques of transformation optics and scattering cancellation to derive material structures that achieve the desired effects. In this Letter, we note that it is also possible to construct a broader class of invisible objects directly from the defining wave equation. The technique is demonstrated in a sca...

We extend the transformation-optics paradigm to a complex spatial coordinate domain, in order to deal with electromagnetic metamaterials characterized by balanced loss and gain, giving special emphasis to parity-time (PT) symmetric metamaterials. We apply this general theory to complex-source-point radiation and anisotropic transmission resonances, illustrating the capability and potentials of ...

We demonstrate that structures made of light can be used to coherently control the motion of complex molecules. In particular, we show diffraction of the fullerenes C(60) and C(70) at a thin grating based on a standing light wave. We prove experimentally that the principles of this effect, well known from atom optics, can be successfully extended to massive and large molecules which are interna...

Partially coherent light is often preferable to its completely coherent counterpart in applications such as imaging, sensing, and free-space optical communications. To fully exploit its advantages, techniques able to retrieve information carried by the beam are required. Here, we develop and experimentally demonstrate a phase-space optics technique for complete spatial analysis of widely used S...

The speckle imaging is a photographic technique that resolves objects viewed through severely distorted media. The results are insensitive to the errors caused by apparent size of the isoplanatic patch and the telescope aberrations. In this article, a short descriptions of the atmospheric turbulence and its effect on the flat wavefront from a stellar source is presented; the shortcomings of the...

Abstract The electron lens in the Fermilab Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) will enable new research nonlinear integrable optics, space-charge compensation, cooling, and stability of intense beams. This addresses scientific questions on high-brightness beams operational challenges high-power accelerators for nuclear particle physics. We review roles that lenses play this field physical...