Dr. Kayn A. Forbes
Lecturer at Univ of East Anglia
SPIE Involvement:
Publications Committee | Conference Program Committee | Editorial Board Member: Advanced Photonics Nexus | Author
Area of Expertise:
Nano-optics , Molecular physics , Chirality , Photonics , Structured light
Websites:
Profile Summary

Dr Kayn A Forbes is a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK where he leads the Light-Matter and Nanophotonics Theory group. He received his PhD in quantum electrodynamics under the supervision of Professor David L. Andrews (SPIE President 2021) at UEA in 2018. He was then awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2019–2022 and in September 2022 was appointed Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry at UEA.

He is a theoretician with expertise in nanophotonics and structured light using methods from both quantum and semiclassical optics with a particular emphasis on molecular and chemical systems. His most recent interest has been in exploiting the chirality of complex light for applications in chiroptical spectroscopy and optical manipulation.

His relations with SPIE include serving on the Publications Committee beginning 2022; an Associate Editor for Advanced Photonics Nexus; and being a member of a number Conference Program Committees.
Publications (19)

Proceedings Article | 4 October 2024 Poster
Light Mkhumbuza, Angela Dudley, Kayn Forbes, Isaac Nape
Proceedings Volume PC13130, PC131300E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027978
KEYWORDS: Polarimetry, Optical manipulation

Proceedings Article | 10 June 2024 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12991, 129910C (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017857
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Birefringence, Light-matter interactions, Light absorption, Dichroic materials, Chiral materials, Absorption, Polarized light, Refraction, Optical vortices

Proceedings Article | 15 March 2023 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12436, 1243603 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648474
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Absorbance, Polarization density, Optical vortices, Wavefronts, Polarized light, Bessel beams, Spiral phase plates, Electromagnetism, Plane waves

Proceedings Article | 24 May 2022 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12131, 121310E (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2621493
KEYWORDS: Polarization, Structured light, Optical vortices, Photons, Optical tweezers, Rayleigh scattering, Optical trapping, Optical manipulation, Light wave propagation

Proceedings Article | 3 March 2022 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 12017, 1201708 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605929
KEYWORDS: Optical vortices, Polarization, Light wave propagation, Structured light, Nanophotonics, Physics, Gaussian beams

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Conference Committee Involvement (7)
Complex Light and Optical Forces XIX
27 January 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Nanophotonics X
7 April 2024 | Strasbourg, France
Complex Light and Optical Forces XVIII
29 January 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
SPIE-CLP Conference on Advanced Photonics 2023
22 August 2023 | San Diego, California, United States
Complex Light and Optical Forces XVII
30 January 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
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