Light has played a crucial role in the age of information technology and has facilitated the
soaring development of information optics. The ever-increasing demand for high-capacity …

In recent decades, significant progress has been made in the field of laser beam sha**,
driven by the growing demands in both scientific research and industrial applications …

Beyond orbital angular momentum of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes, the radial index can
also be exploited as information channel in free-space optical (FSO) communication to …

Optical vortex arrays (OVAs) have successfully aroused substantial interest from researchers
for their promising prospects ranging from classical to quantum physics. Previous reported …

The diffraction of vortex Gaussian laser beams by elementary objects of micro-optics
(surface micro-defects) to recognize the type of polarization (linear, circular, radial …

We proposed an approach for creating three-dimensional (3D) multifocal perfect vortices
arrays by using a high numerical aperture objective. The position, orbital angular momentum …

A procedure and optical concept is introduced for ultrashort pulsed laser cleaving of
transparent materials with tailored edges in a single pass. The procedure is based on …

The remarkable temporal properties of ultra-short pulsed lasers in combination with novel
beam sha** concepts enable the development of completely new material processing …

We consider methods for obtaining a multitude of structured laser beams (multiplexing) from
an illuminating beam (both structured and unstructured) with the help of diffractive optical …

Three-dimensional (3D) microstructures used in the formation of optical traps on the optical
axis in the near diffraction zone are calculated and studied. Subwavelength, variable-height …