Transformation optics articles within Nature Physics

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• Letter | 30 July 2018

  Reconstructing the topology of optical polarization knots

  Knotted lines representing torus knot and figure-eight knot are produced in the polarization profile of optical beams, leading to a topological characterization of the structure of the polarization field.

  • Hugo Larocque
  • , Danica Sugic
  •  & Ebrahim Karimi

• News & Views | 07 July 2013

  Making light of tight corners

  Transformation optics is an invaluable tool for designing metamaterials. The same idea, it is now shown, could also prove to be a boon for nanoplasmonics.

  • R. C. McPhedran

• Article | 07 July 2013

  Capturing photons with transformation optics

  The modelling of plasmonic systems is complicated by the broad range of length scales involved: the physical dimensions of the structure might be as small as 1 nm, whereas the wavelength of the light involved can be a few hundred nanometres. It is now shown that transformation optics, a technique successfully used to design metamaterials, is also valuable for circumventing these problems.

  • J. B. Pendry
  • , A. I. Fernández-Domínguez
  •  & Rongkuo Zhao