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Photonic Landau levels in a high-dimensional frequency-degenerate cavity
Jing Pan, Zhaoyang Wang, Yuan Meng +3
Topological orders emerge in both microscopic quantum dynamics and macroscopic materials as a fundamental principle to characterize intricate properties in nature with vital signif…
Optical skyrmions from metafibers
Tiantian He, Yuan Meng, Lele Wang +7
Optical skyrmions are an emerging class of structured light with sophisticated particle-like topologies with great potential for revolutionizing modern informatics. However, the cu…
Allying nanophotonic structures with two-dimensional van der Waals materials
Yuan Meng, Hongkun Zhong, Zhihao Xu +7
The integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials with photonic structures has catalyzed a wide spectrum of optical and optoelectronic applications. Conventional nanophotonic struc…
Frequency-astigmatism asymmetric nonlinear conversion of structured light lasers
Jing Pan, Hao Wang, Zijian Shi +3
Nonlinear optics of structured light has recently delivered intriguing fundamental physical phenomena in light-matter interactions and advanced applications from classical imaging…
Topologically controlled multiskyrmions in photonic gradient-index lenses
Yijie Shen, Chao He, Zipei Song +8
Skyrmions are topologically protected quasiparticles, originally studied in condensed-matter systems and recently in photonics, with great potential in ultra-high-capacity informat…
Toward arbitrary spin-orbit flat optics via structured geometric phase gratings
Chun-Yu Li, Si-Jia Liu, Bing-Shi Yu +6
Reciprocal spin-orbit coupling (SOC) via geometric phase with flat optics provides a promising platform for shaping and controlling paraxial structured light. Current devices, from…
Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields
Yijie Shen, Qiwen Zhan, Logan G. Wright +42
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents the holy grail of the human everlasting pursue of ultrafast information transmission a…
Structured light analogy of squeezed state
Zhaoyang Wang, Ziyu Zhan, Anton N. Vetlugin +3
Control of structured light is of great importance to explore fundamental physical effects and extend practical scientific applications, which has been advanced by accepting method…
Topological Transformation and Free-Space Transport of Photonic Hopfions
Yijie Shen, Bingshi Yu, Haijun Wu +3
Structured light fields embody strong spatial variations of polarisation, phase and amplitude. Understanding, characterization and exploitation of such fields can be achieved throu…
Self-healing of structured light: a review
Yijie Shen, Shankar Pidishety, Isaac Nape +1
Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will giv…
Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light
Yijie Shen, Qiang Zhang, Peng Shi +3
Skyrmions are topologically stable quasiparticles that have been predicted and demonstrated in quantum fields, solid-state physics, and magnetic materials, but only recently observ…
3D inhomogeneous self-accelerating beams
Jing Pan, Hao Wang, Yijie Shen +2
We propose and generate a new class of structured light fulfilling quantum-like coherent states based on a set of circular Airy vortex modes. Such coherent-state wave packets posse…
Nonseparable states of light: From quantum to classical
Yijie Shen, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán
Controlling the various degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of structured light at both quantum and classical levels is of paramount importance in optics. It is a conventional paradigm to tr…
Divergence-degenerated spatial multiplexing towards ultrahigh capacity, low bit-error-rate optical communications
Zhensong Wan, Yijie Shen, Zhaoyang Wang +3
Spatial mode (de)multiplexing of orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams is a promising solution to address future bandwidth issues, but the rapidly increasing divergence with the mod…
Conformal frequency conversion for arbitrary vectorial structured light
Hai-Jun Wu, Bing-Shi Yu, Zhi-Han Zhu +7
Vectorial structured light with spatially varying amplitude, phase, and polarization is reshaping many areas of modern optics, including nonlinear optics, as diverse parametric pro…
Deep-learning-based recognition of multi-singularity structured light
Hao Wang, Xilin Yang, Zeqi Liu +8
Structured light with customized complex topological pattern inspires diverse classical and quantum investigations underpinned by accurate detection techniques. However, the curren…
Classical structured light analogy of quantum squeezed state
Zhaoyang Wang, Ziyu Zhan, Xing Fu +1
Much of the richness in nature arises due to the connection between classical and quantum mechanics. In advanced science, the tools of quantum mechanics was not only applied in mic…
Supertoroidal light pulses: Propagating electromagnetic skyrmions in free space
Yijie Shen, Yaonan Hou, Nikitas Papasimakis +1
Topological structures of electromagnetic fields could give access to nontrivial light-matter interactions and additional degrees of freedom for information and energy transfer. A…
Observation of Toroidal Pulses of Light
A. Zdagkas, Y. Shen, C. McDonnell +5
The transverse electromagnetic waves are major information and energy carriers. In 1996, Hellwarth and Nouchi theoretically identified a radically different, non-transverse type of…
Coherent ray-wave structured light based on (helical) Ince-Gaussian modes
Zhaoyang Wang, Yijie Shen, Qiang Liu +1
The topological evolution of classic eigenmodes including Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian and (helical) InceGaussian modes is exploited to construct coherent state modes, which unifies t…
Measures of space-time non-separability of electromagnetic pulses
Yijie Shen, Apostolos Zdagkas, Nikitas Papasimakis +1
Electromagnetic pulses are typically treated as space-time (or space-frequency) separable solutions of Maxwell's equations, where spatial and temporal (spectral) dependence can be…
Two-dimensional-controlled high-order modes and vortex beams from an intracavity mode converter laser
Jing Pan, Yijie Shen, Zhensong Wan +3
We present a novel scheme of structured light laser with an astigmatic mode converter (AMC) as intracavity element, first enabling the generation of Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes wit…
High-dimensional classically entangled light from a laser
Yijie Shen, Isaac Nape, Xilin Yang +4
Vectorially structured light has emerged as an enabling tool in many diverse applications, from communication to imaging, exploiting quantum-like correlations courtesy of a non-sep…
Hybrid topological evolution of multi-singularity vortex beams: Generalized nature for helical-Ince-Gaussian and Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian modes
Yijie Shen, Yuan Meng, Xing Fu +1
A generalized family of scalar structured Gaussian modes including helical-Ince--Gaussian (HIG) and Hermite--Laguerre--Gaussian (HLG) beams is presented with physical insight upon…