Space-time wave packets

M Yessenov, LA Hall, KL Schepler… - Advances in Optics and …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Space-time wave packets (STWPs) constitute a broad class of pulsed optical fields that are
rigidly transported in linear media without diffraction or dispersion, and are therefore …

Synthesis of ultrafast wavepackets with tailored spatiotemporal properties

D Cruz-Delgado, S Yerolatsitis, NK Fontaine… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sculpting light in space and time can provide unprecedented opportunities in many areas of
science and technology, ranging from extreme nonlinear optics and quantum networks to …

Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions

M Yessenov, J Free, Z Chen, EG Johnson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical wave packets that are localized in space and time, but nevertheless overcome
diffraction and travel rigidly in free space, are a long sought-after field structure with …

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 …

Single-frame characterization of ultrafast pulses with spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum

G Gui, NJ Brooks, B Wang, HC Kapteyn… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Light that carries spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) makes possible new
types of optical vortices arising from transverse OAM. ST-OAM pulses exhibit novel …

Diffraction properties of light with transverse orbital angular momentum

S Huang, P Wang, X Shen, J Liu, R Li - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) is unique, owing to its phase singularity in the
space–time domain, and it can carry transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) …

Propagation of spatiotemporal optical vortex beams in linear, second-order dispersive media

MW Hyde IV, MA Porras - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
In this paper, we study the behaviors of spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) beams
propagating in linear dispersive media. Starting with the Fresnel diffraction integral, we …

Direct space–time manipulation mechanism for spatio-temporal coupling of ultrafast light field

Q Lin, F Feng, Y Cai, X Lu, X Zeng, C Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Traditionally, manipulation of spatiotemporal coupling (STC) of the ultrafast light fields can
be actualized in the space-spectrum domain with some 4-f pulse shapers, which suffers …

Temporal effect of the spin-to-orbit conversion in tightly focused femtosecond optical fields

S Zhang, Z Zhou, Y Fu, Q Chen, W Li, H Fang, C Min… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Spin and orbital angular momenta are two of the most fundamental physical quantities that
describe the complex dynamic behaviors of optical fields. A strong coupling between these …

Nonlocality-mediated spatiotemporal optical vortex generation in nanorod-based epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

VB Novikov, TV Murzina - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical vortices have myriad applications in photonics. Very recently, promising concepts of
spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) pulses based on the phase helicity in the space–time …