Adaptive optics for high-resolution imaging

KM Hampson, R Turcotte, DT Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique that corrects for optical aberrations. It was originally
proposed to correct for the blurring effect of atmospheric turbulence on images in ground …

Orbital angular momentum and beyond in free-space optical communications

J Wang, J Liu, S Li, Y Zhao, J Du, L Zhu - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Orbital angular momentum (OAM), which describes tailoring the spatial physical dimension
of light waves into a helical phase structure, has given rise to many applications in optical …

Tunable topological charge vortex microlaser

Z Zhang, X Qiao, B Midya, K Liu, J Sun, T Wu, W Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) intrinsically carried by vortex light beams holds a
promise for multidimensional high-capacity data multiplexing, meeting the ever-increasing …

Review on fractional vortex beam

H Zhang, J Zeng, X Lu, Z Wang, C Zhao, Y Cai - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
As an indispensable complement to an integer vortex beam, the fractional vortex beam has
unique physical properties such as radially notched intensity distribution, complex phase …

Roadmap on structured light

H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, A Forbes, MV Berry… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

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 …

Orbital angular momentum waves: Generation, detection, and emerging applications

R Chen, H Zhou, M Moretti, X Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 25 years on

MJ Padgett - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Twenty-five years ago Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman published their
seminal paper establishing that light beams with helical phase-fronts carried an orbital …

Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit

NI Zheludev, G Yuan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical superoscillations are rapid, subwavelength spatial variations of the intensity and
phase of light, occurring in complex electromagnetic fields formed by the interference of …

Advances in communications using optical vortices

J Wang - Photonics Research, 2016 - opg.optica.org
An optical vortex having an isolated point singularity is associated with the spatial structure
of light waves. A polarization vortex (vector beam) with a polarization singularity has …