Nonseparable states of light: from quantum to classical

Y Shen, C Rosales‐Guzmán - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Controlling the various degrees‐of‐freedom (DoFs) of structured light at both quantum and
classical levels is of paramount importance in optics. It is a conventional paradigm to treat …

A review of complex vector light fields and their applications

C Rosales-Guzmán, B Ndagano, A Forbes - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Vector beams, and in particular vector vortex beams, have found many applications in recent
times, both as classical fields and as quantum states. While much attention has focused on …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Metasurface-enabled single-shot and complete Mueller matrix imaging

A Zaidi, NA Rubin, ML Meretska, LW Li, AH Dorrah… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
When light scatters off an object, its polarization, in general, changes—a transformation
described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging is an important technique in …

Vectorial doppler metrology

L Fang, Z Wan, A Forbes, J Wang - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The Doppler effect is a universal wave phenomenon that has spurred a myriad of
applications. In early manifestations, it was implemented by interference with a reference …

Creation and detection of vector vortex modes for classical and quantum communication

B Ndagano, I Nape, MA Cox… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vector vortex beams are structured states of light that are nonseparable in their polarisation
and spatial mode, they are eigenmodes of free-space and many fiber systems, and have the …

Characterizing quantum channels with non-separable states of classical light

B Ndagano, B Perez-Garcia, FS Roux, M McLaren… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
High-dimensional entanglement with spatial modes of light promises increased security and
information capacity over quantum channels. Unfortunately, entanglement decays due to …

Spin–orbit microlaser emitting in a four-dimensional Hilbert space

Z Zhang, H Zhao, S Wu, T Wu, X Qiao, Z Gao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A step towards the next generation of high-capacity, noise-resilient communication and
computing technologies is a substantial increase in the dimensionality of information space …

Structured ray-wave vector vortex beams in multiple degrees of freedom from a laser

Y Shen, X Yang, D Naidoo, X Fu, A Forbes - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Vector vortex beams are conventionally created as the superposition of orbital angular
momentum (OAM) modes with orthogonal polarizations, limiting the available degrees of …

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light: a tutorial

Q Zhan - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulses with sophisticated structures on demand is one
major goal of the everlasting pursuit of ultrafast information transmission and processing as …