Structured light is derived from the ability to tailor light, usually referring to the spatial control
of its amplitude, phase, and polarization. Although a venerable topic that dates back to the …

The paper briefly presents some essential concepts and features of light fields with strong
spatial inhomogeneity of amplitude, phase, polarization, and other parameters. It contains a …

The pace of innovations in the field of optical trap** has ramped up in the past couple of
years. The implementation of structured light, leading to groundbreaking inventions such as …

Existing for almost four decades, liquid crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology is rapidly
growing into photonic applications. We review the basics of the technology, from the wafer to …

Research on spatially structured light has seen an explosion in activity over the past
decades, powered by technological advances for generating such light and driven by …

Geometric phases are ubiquitous in physics; they act as memories of the transformation of a
physical system. In optics, the most prominent examples are the Pancharatnam-Berry phase …

Geometric phases are a universal concept that underpins numerous phenomena involving
multi-component wave fields. These polarization-dependent phases are inherent in …

Polarization singularities are superpositions of orbital angular momentum (OAM) states in
orthogonal circular polarization basis. The intrinsic OAM of light beams arises due to the …

A full Poincaré (FP) beam possesses all possible optical spin states in its cross section,
which constitutes an optical analog of a skyrmion. Until now FP beams have been …

In recent time there has been an increasing amount of interest in develo** novel
techniques for the generation of complex vector light beams. Amongst these, digital …