Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …

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 …

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 …

Structured light refers to the generation and application of custom light fields. As the tools
and technology to create and detect structured light have evolved, steadily the applications …

Twenty-five years ago Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman published their
seminal paper establishing that light beams with helical phase-fronts carried an orbital …

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 …

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields,
especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the …

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), which describes the “phase twist”(helical phase pattern)
of light beams, has recently gained interest due to its potential applications in many diverse …

Modal decomposition of light has been known for a long time, applied mostly to pattern
recognition. With the commercialization of liquid-crystal devices, digital holography as an …

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 …