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 …

Tunable structured light with flat optics

AH Dorrah, F Capasso - Science, 2022 - science.org
Flat optics has emerged as a key player in the area of structured light and its applications,
owing to its subwavelength resolution, ease of integration, and compact footprint. Although …

Nanophotonics for light detection and ranging technology

I Kim, RJ Martins, J Jang, T Badloe, S Khadir… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, a laser-based imaging technique for
accurate distance measurement, is considered one of the most crucial sensor technologies …

Reaching the efficiency limit of arbitrary polarization transformation with non-orthogonal metasurfaces

Y Yuan, K Zhang, Q Wu, SN Burokur… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polarization transformation is at the foundation of modern applications in photonics and
quantum optics. Notwithstanding their applicative interests, basic theoretical and …

Meta-optics empowered vector visual cryptography for high security and rapid decryption

F Zhang, Y Guo, M Pu, L Chen, M Xu, M Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical encryption is a promising approach to protecting secret information owing to the
advantages of low-power consumption, parallel, high-speed, and multi-dimensional …

Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M **ao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Ultrafast control of vortex microlasers

C Huang, C Zhang, S **ao, Y Wang, Y Fan, Y Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The development of classical and quantum information–processing technology calls for on-
chip integrated sources of structured light. Although integrated vortex microlasers have been …

[HTML][HTML] Orbital angular momentum of light for communications

AE Willner, K Pang, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …