Orbital angular momentum lasers

A Forbes, L Mkhumbuza, L Feng - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Light can be tailored to carry angular momentum well beyond the restriction of its two spin
states, left-and right-circularly polarized light, by imbuing it with orbital angular momentum …

Design strategies and applications of dimensional optical field manipulation based on metasurfaces

W Liu, Z Li, MA Ansari, H Cheng, J Tian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent rapid progress in metasurfaces is underpinned by the physics of local and nonlocal
resonances and the modes coupling among them, leading to tremendous applications such …

Highly efficient vortex generation at the nanoscale

Q Chen, G Qu, J Yin, Y Wang, Z Ji, W Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Control of the angular momentum of light at the nanoscale is critical for many applications of
subwavelength photonics, such as high-capacity optical communications devices, super …

Cascaded metasurfaces for high-purity vortex generation

F Mei, G Qu, X Sha, J Han, M Yu, H Li, Q Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We introduce a new paradigm for generating high-purity vortex beams with metasurfaces. By
applying optical neural networks to a system of cascaded phase-only metasurfaces, we …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding

X Fang, X Hu, B Li, H Su, K Cheng, H Luan… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning with optical neural networks has featured unique advantages of
the information processing including high speed, ultrawide bandwidths and low energy …

On‐Chip Direction‐Multiplexed Meta‐Optics for High‐Capacity 3D Holography

Z Li, Y Liu, C Zhang, Y Qiao, R Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces are recently incorporated with waveguides for in‐plane wave manipulation
and extraction, enhancing the capability and design flexibility of integrated photonic devices …

Self-healing of structured light: a review

Y Shen, S Pidishety, I Nape, A Dudley - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being
damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a …

Quantum vortex formation in the “rotating bucket” experiment with polariton condensates

I Gnusov, S Harrison, S Alyatkin, K Sitnik, J Töpfer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The appearance of quantized vortices in the classical “rotating bucket” experiments of liquid
helium and ultracold dilute gases provides the means for fundamental and comparative …

Multiscale optical field manipulation via planar digital optics

X Luo - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Replacing curved and bulky optical elements with thin and lightweight counterparts is a
persistent pursuit of the optical society. Metasurfaces, as two-dimensional artificial …