Anderson M. Amaral

Physicist at UFPE working on nonlinear & quantum optics, structured light, and nanophotonics — from optical vortices and light–matter interaction to instrumentation and methods for the optics lab.

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Research interests

Structured light & optical vortices

Orbital angular momentum · topological charge

Characterizing and shaping light beams that carry orbital angular momentum, including vortices with non-cylindrical symmetry.

Nonlinear optics

Light controlling light

Nonlinear refraction, absorption, and scattering in turbid and resonant media — and single-shot methods to characterize them.

Nanophotonics & plasmonics

Light at metallic & rare-earth nanostructures

Plasmon-enhanced processes and luminescent rare-earth nanomaterials for sensing and nanothermometry.