Vector beams, and in particular vector vortex beams, have found many applications in recent
times, both as classical fields and as quantum states. While much attention has focused on …

Pressure has long been recognized as a fundamental thermodynamic variable but its
application was previously limited by the available pressure vessels and probes. The …

The angular momentum of light can be described by positions on a higher-order Poincaré
sphere, where superpositions of spin and orbital angular momentum states give rise to laser …

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 …

Vector vortex beams have attracted considerable research attention owing to their unique
optical properties, and have been explored in vortex filtering, photon entanglement, and the …

Optical vector vortex beams provide additional degrees of freedom for spatially
distinguishable channels in data transmission. Although several coherent light sources …

Geometric phase is a unifying and central concept in physics, including optics. As a matter of
fact, optics played a pivotal role from the inception of this new paradigm, as some of the first …

An integrated way to generate and manipulate higher-order Poincaré sphere beams
(HOPBs) is a sought-after goal in photonic integrated circuits for high-capacity …

Vortex beams (VBs), possessing a helical phase front and carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM), have attracted considerable attention in optical communications for their …

We propose theoretically and verify experimentally a method of combining a q-plate and a
spiral phase plate to generate arbitrary vector vortex beams on a hybrid-order Poincaré …