Optical techniques offer a wide variety of applications as light-matter interactions provide
extremely sensitive mechanisms to probe or treat target media. Most of these …

Modes generally provide an economical description of waves, reducing complicated wave
functions to finite numbers of mode amplitudes, as in propagating fiber modes and ideal …

Quantum and classical physics can be used for mathematical computations that are hard to
tackle by conventional electronics. Very recently, optical Ising machines have been …

For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Programmable optical circuits are an important tool in develo** quantum technologies
such as transceivers for quantum communication and integrated photonic chips for quantum …

Multiphoton propagation in connected structures—a quantum walk—offers the potential of
simulating complex physical systems and provides a route to universal quantum …

Multi-plane light converters (MPLCs) are an emerging class of optical devices capable of
converting a set of input spatial light modes to a new target set of output modes. This …

Reconfigurable quantum circuits are fundamental building blocks for the implementation of
scalable quantum technologies. Their implementation has been pursued in linear optics …

Performing linear operations using optical devices is a crucial building block in many fields
ranging from telecommunications to optical analog computation and machine learning. For …

In sight of fundamental thermal limits on further substantial performance improvements of
modern digital computational processing units, wave-based analog computation is …