Structured light

A Forbes, M De Oliveira, MR Dennis - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

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 …

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 …

Revealing the invariance of vectorial structured light in complex media

I Nape, K Singh, A Klug, W Buono… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical aberrations place fundamental limits on the achievable resolution with focusing and
imaging. In the context of structured light, optical imperfections and misalignments and …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear optics with structured light

WT Buono, A Forbes - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2022 - researching.cn
The interest in tailoring light in all its degrees of freedom is steadily gaining traction, driven
by the tremendous developments in the toolkit for the creation, control and detection of what …

Vortex laser arrays with topological charge control and self-healing of defects

M Piccardo, M de Oliveira, A Toma, V Aglieri… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Geometric arrays of vortices found in various systems owe their regular structure to mutual
interactions within a confined system. In optics, such vortex crystals may form spontaneously …

Roadmap on structured waves

KY Bliokh, E Karimi, MJ Padgett, MA Alonso… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …

High-purity orbital angular momentum states from a visible metasurface laser

H Sroor, YW Huang, B Sephton, D Naidoo, A Vallés… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) from lasers holds promise for compact, at-source
solutions for applications ranging from imaging to communications. However, conjugate …

Optical coherence encryption with structured random light

D Peng, Z Huang, Y Liu, Y Chen, F Wang… - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Information encryption with optical technologies has become increasingly important
due to remarkable multidimensional capabilities of light fields. However, the optical …