Tunable structured light with flat optics

AH Dorrah, F Capasso - Science, 2022 - science.org
Flat optics has emerged as a key player in the area of structured light and its applications,
owing to its subwavelength resolution, ease of integration, and compact footprint. Although …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Creating longitudinally varying vector vortex beams with an all‐dielectric metasurface

C Zheng, J Li, J Liu, J Li, Z Yue, H Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vector vortex beams have attracted considerable research attention owing to their unique
optical properties, and have been explored in vortex filtering, photon entanglement, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cascaded metasurfaces for high-purity vortex generation

F Mei, G Qu, X Sha, J Han, M Yu, H Li, Q Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We introduce a new paradigm for generating high-purity vortex beams with metasurfaces. By
applying optical neural networks to a system of cascaded phase-only metasurfaces, we …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic control of hybrid grafted perfect vector vortex beams

H Ahmed, MA Ansari, Y Li, T Zentgraf… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Perfect vector vortex beams (PVVBs) have attracted considerable interest due to their
peculiar optical features. PVVBs are typically generated through the superposition of perfect …

Design strategies and applications of dimensional optical field manipulation based on metasurfaces

W Liu, Z Li, MA Ansari, H Cheng, J Tian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent rapid progress in metasurfaces is underpinned by the physics of local and nonlocal
resonances and the modes coupling among them, leading to tremendous applications such …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum structured light in high dimensions

I Nape, B Sephton, P Ornelas, C Moodley, A Forbes - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Structured light has become topical of late, where controlling light in all its degrees of
freedom has offered novel states of light long predicted, enhanced functionality in …