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 …

Vector beams, and in particular vector vortex beams, have found many applications in recent
times, both as classical fields and as quantum states. While much attention has focused on …

An overview of the recent developments in the field of cylindrical vector beams is provided.
As one class of spatially variant polarization, cylindrical vector beams are the axially …

As a fundamental property of light, the angular momentum of photons has been of great
interest. Here, we demonstrate that optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion …

We demonstrate that hollow Gaussian beams can be obtained from Fourier transform of the
differentials of a Gaussian beam, and thus they can be generated by spatial filtering in the …

We propose a method for generating focal beams with special intensity distributions using
radially polarized vortex beams in a 4Pi configuration. A spherical dark-hollow beam and …

Three-dimensional transformations of light fields were investigated, including such
characteristics as intensity distribution and polarisation state, in the focal region at tight …

In the past years, there has been a growing interest in innovative applications of radially
polarized laser beams. Among them, the particular field of laser-driven electron acceleration …

Higher-order polarization singularities embedded in tailored vector beams are introduced
and experimentally realized. As holographic modulation allows to define order and location …

We demonstrate an all-optical strategy for realizing spherical three-dimensional (3D) super-
resolution (∼ λ 3/22) spot arrays of pure longitudinal magnetization by exploiting a 4π …