“Optics in 2024” Cover Art

Artist’s view of quantum fluctuation of light driving a vibrating drum.

Huang et al. / Illustration by EPFL & Second Bay Studios

Illustration of guiding light by means of Lagrange points, as in celestial mechanics.

Luo et al. / Illustration by Y. Wei

Photograph of drone-based precision deflection measurement for bridges.

S. Ri et al. / Photo by S. Ri

Conceptual illustration of engineering speckles to reveal the multicolor wavefront.

A. Liberman et al. / Image by E. Caspi and S. Smartsev 

Artist’s view of coherent optical coupling to surface acoustic wave devices.

A. Iyer et al. / Image by A. Iyer and W. Rennigner

Artistic representation of a lattice generated via a double fiber loop to scale up QID.

R. Morandotti et al. / Illustration by R. Morandotti et al.

Illustration of a narrowband photon-pair source built on ultralow-loss integrated circuits. 

R. Chen et al. / Image by Y-H. Luo and J. Liu 

Artist’s illustration of vector–matrix multiplication with light. 

Nikkhah et al. / Illustration by Ella Maru Studio 

Conceptual verification of comb-enhanced distributed acoustic sensing. 

Y-J. Rao et al. / Image by B-C. Yao 

Artist’s view of vortex and anti-vortex nanolasers. 

M-S. Hwang et al. / Image by M-S. Hwang, Y. Kivshar and H-G. Park 

Photograph of an angle-variable module illuminated by a halogen lamp. 

A. Kobylinskiy et al. / Image by A. Kobylinskiy 

Illustration of accelerating neuronal imaging with reduced laser power. 

L. Li et al. / Illustration by W. Wei and M. Xueting