Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light

Y Shen, Q Zhang, P Shi, L Du, X Yuan, AV Zayats - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and
demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics and magnetic materials, but only …

Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

Meta-optics empowered vector visual cryptography for high security and rapid decryption

F Zhang, Y Guo, M Pu, L Chen, M Xu, M Liao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical encryption is a promising approach to protecting secret information owing to the
advantages of low-power consumption, parallel, high-speed, and multi-dimensional …

A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves

GB Wu, JY Dai, KM Shum, KF Chan, Q Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metasurfaces have promising potential to revolutionize a variety of photonic and electronic
device technologies. However, metasurfaces that can simultaneously and independently …

Ultra-degree-of-freedom structured light for ultracapacity information carriers

Z Wan, H Wang, Q Liu, X Fu, Y Shen - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Structured light recently highlighted the higher-dimensional control with many tailored
degrees of freedom (DoFs) such as amplitude, wavelength, polarization, and orbital angular …

[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 …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Topological transformation and free-space transport of photonic hopfions

Y Shen, B Yu, H Wu, C Li, Z Zhu… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light fields embody strong spatial variations of polarization, phase, and amplitude.
Understanding, characterization, and exploitation of such fields can be achieved through …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum structured light in high dimensions

I Nape, B Sephton, P Ornelas, C Moodley, A Forbes - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light has become topical of late, where controlling light in all its degrees of
freedom has offered novel states of light long predicted, enhanced functionality in …