Multimode fiber (MMF) lasers are emerging as a remarkable testbed to study nonlinear
spatiotemporal physics with potential applications spanning from high energy pulse …

Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

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 …

Vortices in fluids and gases have piqued the human interest for centuries. Development of
classical-wave physics and quantum mechanics highlighted wave vortices characterized by …

The synthesis of ultrashort pulses with simultaneously tailored spatial and temporal
properties opens new horizons in multimode photonics, especially when the spatial degree …

Topological wave structures—phase vortices, skyrmions, merons, etc.—are attracting
enormous attention in a variety of quantum and classical wave fields. Surprisingly, these …

Structured light with more extended degrees of freedom (DoFs) and in higher dimensions is
increasingly gaining traction and leading to breakthroughs such as super-resolution …

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are electromagnetic wave packets that transport a
phase line singularity perpendicular to their propagation direction. We address the problem …

Skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles, originally studied in condensed-matter
systems and recently in photonics, with great potential in high-density information storage …

Toroidal electromagnetic pulses have been recently reported as nontransverse, space-time
nonseparable topological excitations of free space. However, their propagation dynamics …