[2] In 1997 Litchinitser joined the Institute of Optics in Rochester, New York, where she was made a postdoctoral research fellow.
[5] To create the lens Litchinitser made use of gold and poly(methyl methacrylate) arranged in Slinky-like formation, which can overcome the diffraction limit to visible light.
[5] Litchinitser makes use of metamaterials to manipulate electric and magnetic fields, engineering shaped beams of light.
[8] Circularly polarised light involves an electric field that rotates around the direction of propagation, such that the photons carry spin angular momentum.
[6] She has since shown that it is possible to measure a vortex laser's orbital angular momentum modes using a tunable micro-transceiver chip-based detector, offering hope that such systems could be used for fast data transmission.
[12] Litchinitser delivered a plenary lecture at the 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics conference, where she discussed the interaction of structured light and nanostructured media.