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 …

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 …

Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications

Z Wan, Y Shen, Z Wang, Z Shi, Q Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial mode (de) multiplexing of orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams is a promising
solution to address future bandwidth issues, but the rapidly increasing divergence with the …

Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the cornerstones in modern optics
and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits, particle manipulation, metrology …

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 …

Robust structured light in atmospheric turbulence

A Klug, C Peters, A Forbes - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light is routinely used in free-space optical communication channels, both
classical and quantum, where information is encoded in the spatial structure of the mode for …

Advances in orbital angular momentum lasers

A Forbes - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As we celebrate 30 years since light's orbital angular momentum (OAM) was connected to its
spatial structure, we reflect on the advances made in fundamental science and applications …

Low-threshold nanolasers based on miniaturized bound states in the continuum

Y Ren, P Li, Z Liu, Z Chen, YL Chen, C Peng, J Liu - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
The pursuit of compact lasers with low thresholds has imposed strict requirements on tight
light confinements with minimized radiation losses. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) …

Orbital angular momentum beams for high-capacity communications

AE Willner, H Song, K Zou, H Zhou… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing interest in structured light, especially orbital angular momentum (OAM)
beams, due to its unique amplitude and phase structure. Multiple orthogonal OAM beams …

Intelligent optoelectronic processor for orbital angular momentum spectrum measurement

H Wang, Z Zhan, F Hu, Y Meng, Z Liu, X Fu, Q Liu - PhotoniX, 2023 - Springer
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) detection underpins almost all aspects of vortex beams'
advances such as communication and quantum analogy. Conventional schemes are …