Polarization and Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in Biomedical Applications: feature issue introduction

Abstract

In the last decade, consistent and successful innovations have been achieved in the field of lasers and optics, collectively known as 'photonics', founding new applications in biomedicine, including clinical biopsy. Non-invasive photonics-based diagnostic modalities are rapidly expanding, and with their exponential improvement, there is a great potential to develop practical instrumentation for automatic detection and identification of different types and/or sub-types of diseases at a very early stage. While using conventional light for the studies of different properties of objects in materials science, astrophysics and biomedicine already has a long history, the interaction of polarized light and optical angular momentum with turbid tissue-like scattering media has not yet been ultimately explored. Since recently this research area became a hot topic. This feature issue is a first attempt to summarize the recognitions achieved in this emerging research field of polarized light and optical angular momentum for practical biomedical applications during the last years. [Abstract copyright: © 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.]

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.442828
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Engineering and Technology > Mechanical, Biomedical & Design
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Additional Information: © 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Uncontrolled Keywords: Biotechnology,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 2156-7085
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2024 08:35
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2021 08:25
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PURE Output Type: Review article
Published Date: 2021-10
Published Online Date: 2021-09-14
Accepted Date: 2021-09-07
Authors: Meglinski, Igor (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-7613-8191)
Novikova, Tatiana
Dholakia, Kishan

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