Geometric phase in optics: from wavefront manipulation to waveguiding

CP Jisha, S Nolte, A Alberucci - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geometric phase is a unifying and central concept in physics, including optics. As a matter of
fact, optics played a pivotal role from the inception of this new paradigm, as some of the first …

Vectorial light–matter interaction: Exploring spatially structured complex light fields

J Wang, F Castellucci, S Franke-Arnold - AVS Quantum Science, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Ultralow-loss geometric phase and polarization shaping by ultrafast laser writing in silica glass

M Sakakura, Y Lei, L Wang, YH Yu… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Polarization and geometric phase shaping via a space-variant anisotropy has attracted
considerable interest for fabrication of flat optical elements and generation of vector beams …

Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin–orbit momentum conservation

KM Dorney, L Rego, NJ Brooks, J San Román… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical interactions are governed by both spin and angular momentum conservation laws,
which serve as a tool for controlling light–matter interactions or elucidating electron …

Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum

L Rego, KM Dorney, NJ Brooks, QL Nguyen, CT Liao… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Light beams carry both energy and momentum, which can exert a small
but detectable pressure on objects they illuminate. In 1992, it was realized that light can also …

Enantio-sensitive unidirectional light bending

D Ayuso, AF Ordonez, P Decleva, M Ivanov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Structured light, which exhibits nontrivial intensity, phase, and polarization patterns in space,
has key applications ranging from imaging and 3D micromanipulation to classical and …

Phase singularities and optical vortices in photonics

AP Porfirev, AA Kuchmizhak, SO Gurbatov… - Phys. Usp, 2022 - ufn.ru
Since the second half of the 20th century, ideas to develop methods for the formation of
optical vortices (OVs) or OV beams–regions of circular motion of energy flow in an …

Extreme-ultraviolet vector-vortex beams from high harmonic generation

A de las Heras, AK Pandey, J San Román, J Serrano… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Structured light in the short-wavelength regime opens exciting avenues for the study of
ultrafast spin and electronic dynamics. Here, we demonstrate theoretically and …

Generation of complex vector and vortex extreme ultraviolet beams using the S-waveplate and spiral phase plate during high-order harmonics generation in argon

V Kärcher, VV Kim, ANK Reddy, H Zacharias… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the generation of vector and vortex high-order harmonic beams in argon using the
femtosecond laser pulses propagated through the phase-modifying optical elements (S …