Harnessing of inhomogeneously polarized Hermite–Gaussian vector beams to manage the 3D spin angular momentum density distribution

SN Khonina, AP Porfirev - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
We propose vector modes based on inhomogeneously polarized Hermite–Gaussian (HG)
vector beams, providing complete structural conservation of the beams during propagation …

Helico-conical vector beams

E Medina-Segura, L Miranda-Culin… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we propose and demonstrate experimentally a new family of vector beams, the
helico-conical vector beams (HCVBs), whose spatial degree of freedom is encoded in the …

Parabolic-accelerating vector waves

B Zhao, V Rodríguez-Fajardo, XB Hu… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Complex vector light fields have become a topic of late due to their exotic features, such as
their non-homogeneous transverse polarisation distributions and the non-separable …

Control of giant orbital angular momentum bursts of structured Laguerre-Gaussian beams in a medium with general astigmatism

AV Volyar, EG Abramochkin, MV Bretsko, SI Khalilov… - Computer …, 2024 - mathnet.ru
We examined theoretically and experimentally the influence of astigmatic elements (for
exam-ple, a cylindrical lens) on a structured Laguerre-Gaussian beam (sLG) when the lens …

Radially self-accelerating Stokes vortices in nondiffracting Bessel–Poincaré beams

C Liang, Z Yuan, W Yan, Y Gao, X Wang, ZC Ren… - Applied Optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically propose and experimentally generate the nondiffracting Bessel–Poincaré
beams whose Stokes vortices radially accelerate during propagation. To this end, we design …

Eigenmodes of aberrated systems: the tilted lens

WT Buono, C Peters, J Tau, I Nape, A Forbes - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
When light propagates through aberrated optical systems, the resulting degradation in
amplitude and phase has deleterious effects, for example, on resolution in imaging, spot …

Twisted polarization domains and their dynamics

A Brimis, KG Makris, DG Papazoglou - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a theoretical investigation of optical Poincaré beams that exhibit interwinding
chiral polarized domains upon propagation. We employ both analytical and numerical …

Where is the orbital angular momentum in vortex superposition states?

H Hu, H Li, X Qin, X Li - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we explore the distribution of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the
coaxial vortex superposition states based on the independent propagation principle of light …

Digital toolbox for vector field characterization

K Singh, A Dudley - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Vectorial structured light fields have displayed properties advantageous in many disciplines
ranging from communications, microscopy and metrology to laser cutting and characterizing …

Versatile all-digital transport-of-intensity based wavefront sensor and adaptive optics using a DMD

K Singh, A Dudley, A Forbes - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Measuring and correcting wavefront aberrations is an important process in a wide variety of
disciplines, from ophthalmology, laser cutting, and astronomy to free-space communication …