Modern types of axicons: New functions and applications

SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy, PA Khorin, MA Butt - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Axicon is a versatile optical element for forming a zero-order Bessel beam, including high-
power laser radiation schemes. Nevertheless, it has drawbacks such as the produced …

Creation and detection of vector vortex modes for classical and quantum communication

B Ndagano, I Nape, MA Cox… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vector vortex beams are structured states of light that are nonseparable in their polarisation
and spatial mode, they are eigenmodes of free-space and many fiber systems, and have the …

Generation of arbitrary vector vortex beams on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere

Z Liu, Y Liu, Y Ke, Y Liu, W Shu, H Luo, S Wen - Photonics Research, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We propose theoretically and verify experimentally a method of combining a q-plate and a
spiral phase plate to generate arbitrary vector vortex beams on a hybrid-order Poincaré …

Machine learning-based classification of vector vortex beams

T Giordani, A Suprano, E Polino, F Acanfora… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Structured light is attracting significant attention for its diverse applications in both classical
and quantum optics. The so-called vector vortex beams display peculiar properties in both …

Integrated structured light manipulation

J Wang, K Li, Z Quan - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light, also known as tailored light, shaped light, sculpted light, or custom light,
refers to a series of special light beams with spatially variant amplitudes and phases …

Generation of switchable singular beams with dynamic metasurfaces

P Yu, J Li, X Li, G Schütz, M Hirscher, S Zhang… - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Singular beams have attracted great attention due to their optical properties and broad
applications from light manipulation to optical communications. However, there has been a …

Formation of hybrid higher-order cylindrical vector beams using binary multi-sector phase plates

SN Khonina, AV Ustinov, SA Fomchenkov… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Nowadays, the well-known cylindrical vector beams (CVBs)–the axially symmetric beam
solution to the full-vector electromagnetic wave equation–are widely used for advanced …

Dynamically tunable deep subwavelength high‐order anomalous reflection using graphene metasurfaces

C Wang, W Liu, Z Li, H Cheng, Z Li… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene‐based metasurfaces have emerged as promising photoelectric devices that can
dynamically control the behavior of electromagnetic waves. The high‐order anomalous …

Metasurfaces with continuous ridges for inverse energy flux generation

S Degtyarev, D Savelyev, S Khonina, N Kazanskiy - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we propose a new approach to construct metasurfaces for the generation of
inverse energy flux near the optical axis. We derive new equations intended to create …

Frequency-switchable VO2-based coding metasurfaces at the terahertz band

J Li, Y Zhang, J Li, J Li, Y Yang, J Huang, C Ma… - Optics …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a frequency-switchable terahertz coding metasurface is demonstrated based
on the phase transition of vanadium dioxide. Temperature excitation can initiate the insulator …