Structured optical materials create new computing paradigms using photons, with
transformative impact on various fields, including machine learning, computer vision …

Control over the dispersion of the refractive index is essential to the performance of most
modern optical systems. These range from laboratory microscopes to optical fibres and even …

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 …

A lightweight and portable spectrometer is desirable for miniaturization and integration. The
unprecedented capability of optical metasurfaces has shown much promise to perform such …

Spatial light modulators, as dynamic flat-panel optical devices, have witnessed rapid
development over the past two decades, concomitant with the advancements in micro-and …

Discrete frequency modes, or bins, present a blend of opportunities and challenges for
photonic quantum information processing. Frequency-bin-encoded photons are readily …

Since its discovery, quantum entanglement has challenged some of the best established
views of the world: locality and reality. Quantum technologies promise to revolutionize …

A key challenge for quantum science and technology is to realize large-scale, precisely
controllable, practical systems for non-classical secured communications, metrology and …

Photon loss is the biggest problem for scalable photonic quantum information processing.
This issue can be tackled through quantum error correction, provided that the overall photon …

Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …