Structured light

A Forbes, M De Oliveira, MR Dennis - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear optics with structured light

WT Buono, A Forbes - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2022 - researching.cn
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 …

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 …

Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

Efficient spatiotemporal-vortex four-wave mixing in a semiconductor nanostructure

Z Wang, Y Zhang, E Paspalakis, B Yu - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We propose a scheme to demonstrate spatiotemporal-vortex four-wave mixing (FWM) in an
asymmetric semiconductor double quantum-well nanostructure. It is found that the orbital …

Conformal frequency conversion for arbitrary vectorial structured light

HJ Wu, BS Yu, ZH Zhu, W Gao, DS Ding, ZY Zhou… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Vectorial structured light with spatially varying amplitude, phase, and polarization is
reshaping many areas of modern optics, including nonlinear optics, as diverse parametric …

Spin to orbital angular momentum transfer in frequency up-conversion

B Pinheiro da Silva, WT Buono, LJ Pereira… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
We demonstrate the spin to orbital angular momentum transfer in frequency upconversion
with structured light beams. A vector vortex is coupled to a circularly polarized Gaussian …

Nonlinear spin-orbit coupling in optical thin films

D de Ceglia, L Coudrat, I Roland, MA Vincenti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tunable generation of vortex beams holds relevance in various fields, including
communications and sensing. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of nonlinear spin …

Observation of a triangular-lattice pattern in nonlinear wave mixing with optical vortices

BP da Silva, GH dos Santos, AG de Oliveira… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Preparation, control, and measurement of optical vortices are increasingly important, as they
play essential roles in both fundamental science and optical technology applications. Spatial …

Phase-matching controlled orbital angular momentum conversion in periodically poled crystals

Y Chen, R Ni, Y Wu, L Du, X Hu, D Wei, Y Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Nonlinear interactions between light waves can exchange energy, linear momentum, and
angular momentum. The direction of energy flow between frequency components is usually …