Recent advances in wavefront shaping have enabled complex classes of Structured Light
which carry spin and orbital angular momentum, offering new tools for light-matter …

Polarization plays a key role in science; hence its versatile manipulation is crucial. Existing
polarization optics, however, can only manipulate polarization in a single transverse plane …

Vortex beams are characterized by a helical wavefront and a phase singularity point on the
propagation axis that results in a doughnut-like intensity profile. These beams carry orbital …

Conventional metasurfaces based on geometric phase are constrained to spin‐locked
phase profile, resulting in mirrored functionalities for different spins. A single flat device that …

Any arbitrary state of polarization of light beam can be decomposed into a linear
superposition of two orthogonal oscillations, each of which has a specific amplitude of the …

Polarization as an important degree of freedom for light plays a key role in optics. Structured
beams with controlled polarization profiles have diverse applications, such as information …

Bending light along arbitrary curvatures is a captivating and popular notion, triggering
unprecedented endeavors in achieving diffraction-free propagation along a curved path in …

The catenary is the curve that a free-hanging chain assumes under its own weight, and
thought to be a “true mathematical and mechanical form” in architecture by Robert Hooke in …

The term Poincaré beam, which describes the space-variant polarization of a light beam
carrying spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM), plays an …

Light beams with a helical phase-front possess orbital angular momentum along their
direction of propagation in addition to the spin angular momentum that describes their …