The interest in tailoring light in all its degrees of freedom is steadily gaining traction, driven
by the tremendous developments in the toolkit for the creation, control and detection of what …

Research on spatially structured light has seen an explosion in activity over the past
decades, powered by technological advances for generating such light and driven by …

Optical communication is an integral part of the modern economy, having all but replaced
electronic communication systems. Future growth in bandwidth appears to be on the horizon …

Vectorial structured light with spatially varying amplitude, phase, and polarization is
reshaping many areas of modern optics, including nonlinear optics, as diverse parametric …

Preparation, control, and measurement of optical vortices are increasingly important, as they
play essential roles in both fundamental science and optical technology applications. Spatial …

Spatial-polarization-independent (SPI) parametric conversion is the basis of many optical
applications, such as SPI frequency interfaces for communication channels carried by vector …

We provide a description of the space-time reflection operator (PT) acting on the two-
dimensional polarization space of light represented by the linear algebra of Jones vectors …

Diffractive multi-beams based on 1× 5 and 2× 2 binary Dammann gratings applied to a
spatial light modulator (SLM) combined with a nanostructured S-wave plate have been used …

Autocorrelation measurement based on second‐harmonic generation (SHG), the best‐
known technique for measuring the temporal duration of ultrashort pulses, dates back to the …

A vector vortex beam presents local polarization states that are spatially modulated in the
plane transverse to propagation. By employing a two-crystal-sandwich source allowing for …