Nonseparable states of light: from quantum to classical

Y Shen, C Rosales‐Guzmán - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Controlling the various degrees‐of‐freedom (DoFs) of structured light at both quantum and
classical levels is of paramount importance in optics. It is a conventional paradigm to treat …

Structured light from lasers

A Forbes - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Optical trap** gets structure: Structured light for advanced optical manipulation

E Otte, C Denz - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Generation of optical skyrmions with tunable topological textures

Y Shen, EC Martínez, C Rosales-Guzmán - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent times, the optical-analogous skyrmions, topological quasiparticles with
sophisticated vectorial structures in light, have received an increasing amount of interest …

A review of complex vector light fields and their applications

C Rosales-Guzmán, B Ndagano, A Forbes - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Polarization in diffractive optics and metasurfaces

NA Rubin, Z Shi, F Capasso - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Polarization, the path traced by light's electric field vector, appears in all areas of optics. In
recent decades, various technologies have enabled the precise control of light's polarization …

Creation and detection of vector vortex modes for classical and quantum communication

B Ndagano, I Nape, MA Cox… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vector vortex beams are structured states of light that are nonseparable in their polarisation
and spatial mode, they are eigenmodes of free-space and many fiber systems, and have the …

Vortex beam: generation and detection of orbital angular momentum

Y Bai, H Lv, X Fu, Y Yang - Chinese Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Recent advances in the research of vortex beams, structured beams carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM), have revolutionized the applications of light beams, such as advanced …

Jones matrix holography with metasurfaces

NA Rubin, A Zaidi, AH Dorrah, Z Shi, F Capasso - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
We propose a new class of computer-generated holograms whose far-fields have designer-
specified polarization response. We dub these Jones matrix holograms. We provide a …