Optical trapping describes the interaction between light and matter to manipulate micro-
objects through momentum transfer. In the case of 3D trapping with a single beam, this is …

BACKGROUND Optical vortices provide one of the promising solutions for enhancing the
capacity of data multiplexing to meet an unprecedented growth in big data and internet traffic …

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 …

Polarization plays a key role in science; hence its versatile manipulation is crucial. Existing
polarization optics, however, can only manipulate polarization in a single transverse plane …

Thirty years ago, Coullet et al. proposed that a special optical field exists in laser cavities
bearing some analogy with the superfluid vortex. Since then, optical vortices have been …

The development of classical and quantum information–processing technology calls for on-
chip integrated sources of structured light. Although integrated vortex microlasers have been …

Abstract Optical multiplexing,,,,,,,,,–by creating orthogonal data channels has offered an
unparalleled approach for information encoding with substantially improved density and …

The term Poincaré beam, which describes the space-variant polarization of a light beam
carrying spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM), plays an …

Dispersion engineering is essential to the performance of most modern optical systems
including fiber-optic devices. Even though the chromatic dispersion of a meter-scale single …

Optical elements that convert the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light into vortex beams
have found applications in classical and quantum optics. These elements—SAM-to–orbital …