Cheng, M., Jiang, W., Guo, L., Li, J., & Forbes, A. (2025). Metrology with a twist: probing and sensing with vortex light. Light: Science & Applications, 14(1), 4.. click here

Nothlawala, F., Moodley, C., Gounden, N., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2025). Quantum Ghost Imaging by Sparse Spatial Mode Reconstruction. Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2400577. click here (front cover)

Chen, J., Forbes, A., & Qiu, C. W. (2025). More than just a name? From magnetic to optical skyrmions and the topology of light. Light: Science & Applications, 14(1), 28. click here

Cocotos, V., Mkhumbuza, L., Forbes, K. A., Mello Koch, R. D., Dudley, A., & Nape, I. (2025). Laguerre–Gaussian modes become elegant after an azimuthal phase modulation. Optics Letters, 50(6), 1913-1916. click here

Perumal, L., Hengsbach, S., Mahdavifar, M., Korvink, J., & Forbes, A. (2025). 3D Printed Optics Achieves Broadband Structured Light. Advanced Optical Materials, 2403028. click here (front cover)

Peters, C., Cocotos, V., & Forbes, A. (2025). Structured light in atmospheric turbulence—a guide to its digital implementation: tutorial. Advances in Optics and Photonics, 17(1), 113-184. click here

Sekkat, Z., Forbes, A., Mthunzi-Kufa, P., & Ngom, B. D. (2025). Optical Science and Photonics in Africa: introduction. Applied Optics, 64(9), OSPA1-OSPA3. click here

Ornelas, P., Nape, I., de Mello Koch, R., & Forbes, A. (2025). Topological rejection of noise by quantum skyrmions. Nature Communications, 16(1), 2934. click here

Forbes, A., & Nothlawala, F. (2025). How a thirty-year-old quantum tale of two photons became ghost imaging. Communications Physics, 8(1), 174. click here

Zhou, Y., Zou, R., Zhan, J., Wang, Y., Dai, D., Choudhury, P. K., ... & Ma, Y. (2025). Quasi‐bound states in the continuum on dislocated bilayer metal gratings for spatiotemporal vortex pulse generation. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 19(9), 2401391. click here

Permaul, T., Forbes, A., & Konrad, T. (2025). Quantum optical formulation of difference-frequency generation and optimal cloning of spatial modes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05238. click here

​Sekkat, Z., Forbes, A., Mthunzi-Kufa, P., & Ngom, B. D. (2025). Optical Science and Photonics in Africa: introduction. Optics Continuum, 4(5), 1174-1176. click here

Forbes, A. (2025). Structured light in space and time. Photonics Insights, 4(2), C02-C02. click here

de Mello Koch, R., Lu, B. Q., Ornelas, P., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2025). Quantum skyrmions in general quantum channels. APL Quantum, 2(2). click here

He, C., Chen, B., Song, Z., Zhao, Z., Ma, Y., He, H., ... & Forbes, A. (2025). A reconfigurable arbitrary retarder array as complex structured matter. Nature Communications, 16(1), 4902. click here

Singh, S., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2025). Enhanced fidelity in nonlinear structured light by virtual light-based apertures. Optics Express, 33(13), 27615-27625. click here

Peters, C., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2025). Tailoring light to create invariant modal spectra through complex channels. Optics Express, 33(13), 27560-27583. click here

Zhao, W., Yi, X., Huang, J., Liu, R., Wang, J., Shi, Y., ... & Dai, D. (2025). All-on-chip reconfigurable generation of scalar and vectorial orbital angular momentum beams. Light: Science & Applications, 14(1), 1-15. click here

Zhao, H., Zhang, Y., Nape, I., Wu, S., Ji, Y., Zhang, C., ... & Feng, L. (2025). On-chip photon entanglement-assisted topology loading and transfer. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01834. click here

Li, C., Liu, C., Peters, C., Yu, H., Maier, S. A., Forbes, A., & Ren, H. (2025). Disorder-enabled Synthetic Metasurfaces. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.04696. click here

Cocotos, V., & Forbes, A. (2025). Orbital angular momentum with topologically controlled beam sizes. Journal of Optics, 27(7), 07LT01. click here

Nothlawala, F., Dekkers, K., Mahdavifar, M., Leach, J., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2025). Orbital angular momentum of entangled photons as a probe for relativistic effects. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.01716. click here

Gounden, N., Nothlawala, F., Obando, P. C., Konrad, T., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2025). Unveiling the link between quantum ghost imaging and Grover's quantum searching algorithm. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11296. click here

Mkhumbuza, L., Ornelas, P., Dudley, A., Nape, I., & Forbes, K. A. (2025). Topological Control of Chirality and Spin with Structured Light. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08733. click here

Koni, M., Kassim, S., Obando, P. C., Gounden, N., & Nape, I. (2025). Towards reconstructing quantum structured light on a quantum computer. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.21804. click here 

Peters, C., Everts, K., Kleine, T., Ornelas, P., & Forbes, A. (2025). Seeing through randomness with topological light. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.12305. click here

Guo, Z., Peters, C., Mata-Cervera, N., Vetlugin, A., Guo, R., Zhang, P., ... & Shen, Y. (2025). Topological robustness of classical and quantum optical skyrmions in atmospheric turbulence. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05727. click here

Jiang, W., Cheng, M., Guo, L., & Forbes, A. (2025). Spatially-Resolved Atmospheric Turbulence Sensing with Two-Dimensional Orbital Angular Momentum Spectroscopy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06434. click here

Sánchez-Montes, A. R., Singh, S., Márquez, A., Francés, J., Forbes, A., & Dudley, A. (2025). Nonlinear modal decomposition of structured light. Optics Express, 33(19), 41261-41270. click here

Jiang, W., Cheng, M., Guo, L., Yi, X., Li, J., Wang, J., & Forbes, A. (2025). Machine learning assisted speckle and OAM spectrum analysis for enhanced turbulence characterization. Photonics Research, 13(10), B29-B37. click here

Medina-Segura, E., Obando, P. C., Mkhumbuza, L., Galvez, E. J., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Ruffato, G., ... & Nape, I. (2025). Emulating a quantum Maxwell’s demon with nonseparable structured light. Photonics Research, 13(11), B79-B92. click here (front cover)

Zhou, X., Chan, J. Y. E., Chang, C. T., Liu, Z., Hao, W., Forbes, A., ... & Yang, J. K. (2025). Encoding orbital angular momentum of light in space with optical catastrophes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00871. click here

Dekkers, K., Koni, M., Hakobyan, V., Singh, S., Leach, J., Brasselet, E., ... & Forbes, A. (2025). Wavelength-adaptive spin–orbit orbital angular momentum management in three-wave mixing. Journal of Optics, 27(11), 115501. click here

Cheng, M., & Forbes, A. (2025). Research highlight: single photon Skyrmions from on-chip quantum dots. eLight, 5(1), 25. click here

Zhang, Z., Kong, L., Zhang, L., Pan, X., Das, T., Wang, B., ... & Forbes, A. (2025). Structured light meets machine intelligence. eLight, 5(1), 1-35. click here (front cover)

Cocotos, V., Sanchez-Montes, A. R., Dudley, A., Singh, S., Peters, C., Márquez, A., ... & Forbes, A. (2025). Precision writing and tracking of optical vortices using nonlinear optics. Applied Physics B, 131(12), 223. click here

Koni, M., Nothlawala, F., Hakobyan, V., Nape, I., Brasselet, E., & Forbes, A. (2025). Dual-wavelength quantum skyrmions from liquid crystal topological defect. Physical Review Letters, 135(22), 223804. click here

Forbes, A., Nothlawala, F., & Vallés, A. (2025). Progress in quantum structured light. Nature Photonics, 1-10. click here (front cover)

Carbajo, S., Bahk, S. W., Baker, J., Bertozzi, A., Borthakur, A., Di Piazza, A., ... & Zhang, H. (2025). Structured light at the extreme: Harnessing spatiotemporal control for high-field laser-matter interactions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05042. click here

Bezuidenhout, H., Peters, C., Kumar, R., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2025). Deep diffractive optical neural networks for detecting Skyrmionic topologies of light. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.11115. click here

de Mello Koch, R., Ornelas, P., Gounden, N., Lu, B. Q., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2025). Revealing the topological nature of entangled orbital angular momentum states of light. Nature Communications, 16(1), 11095. click here

Yang, Y., Li, Z., Huang, Z., Forbes, A., Cao, L., Xia, K., & Lu, Y. (2025). Quantum holography enhanced by object-uncorrelated photons. Physical Review Applied, 24(6), 064077. click here