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most citedPropagation Dynamics of Photonic Toroidal Vortices Mediated by Orbital Angular Momenta

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physics.optics2026

Programmable spatiotemporal shaping for partially coherent structured wave packets

Zhao Zhang, Haihao Fan, Yaning Zhou +5

Providing more coherent light with space-time coupling offers unprecedented opportunities across diverse scientific disciplines and areas of technology. However, in many applicatio…

physics.optics2026

Temporal Focusing Enables Distortion-Resistant high-intensity Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices

Jielei Ni, Yao Zhang, Qianyi Wei +10

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carry transverse orbital angular momentum and offer new degrees of freedom for light-matter interactions. Yet conventional focusing of STOVs…

physics.optics2026

Nonlinear Nanophotonic Chip-space Interfaces: On-chip Generation of Structured, Topological and Spatiotemporal Lights Via Nonlinear Čerenkov Radiation

Dunzhao Wei, Bo Chen, Shuai Wan +15

Miniaturized and reconfigurable interfaces between confined optical modes within integrated photonic chips and structured light propagating in free space would serve as a cornersto…

physics.optics2025

Polygonal Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices Wavepackets with Prescribed Vortex Structure

Haifa Fan, Qian Cao, Andy Chong +1

Optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum offer additional degrees of freedom. According to the orientation of orbital angular momentum, optical vortices can be classified…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Spatiotemporally Localized Optical Links and Knots

Yaning Zhou, Nianjia Zhang, Ao Zhou +7

Optical links and knots have attracted growing attention owing to their exotic topologic features and promising applications in next-generation information transfer and storage. Ho…

physics.optics2025

Spatiotemporal Topological Combs for Robust High-Dimensional Information Transmission

Dawei Liu, Daijun Luo, Huiming Wang +8

Sculpting light across its independent degrees of freedom-from orbital angular momentum to the discrete wavelengths of optical frequency combs-has unlocked vast communication bandw…

physics.optics2025

Spatiotemporal coupled Airy-Airy wavepacket and its propagation dynamics

Zhaofeng Huang, Xiaolin Su, Qian Cao +2

Airy beams, celebrated for their self-acceleration, diffraction-free propagation, and self-healing properties, have garnered significant interest in optics and photonics, with appl…

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

Propagation Dynamics of Photonic Toroidal Vortices Mediated by Orbital Angular Momenta

Xin Liu, Nianjia Zhang, Qian Cao +4

The dynamics of vortex rings in fluids have long captivated researchers due to the intriguing complexity of their behavior, despite the apparent simplicity of their structure. In o…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Full space-time abrupt autofocusing spherical Airy wavepacket

Qian Cao, Nianjia Zhang, Chenghao Li +2

The ability to precisely focus optical beams is crucial for numerous applications, yet conventional Gaussian beams exhibit slow intensity transitions near the focal point, limiting…

physics.optics2025

Spatiotemporal Airy rings wavepackets

Xiaolin Su, Andy Chong, Qian Cao +1

Airy waves, known for their non-diffracting and self-accelerating properties, have been extensively studied in spatial and temporal domains, but their spatiotemporal (ST) counterpa…

physics.optics2025

Spatiotemporal Photonic Emulator of Potential-free Schrödinger Equation

Qian Cao, Nianjia Zhang, Andy Chong +1

Photonic quantum emulator utilizes photons to emulate the quantum physical behavior of a complex quantum system. Recent study in spatiotemporal optics has enriched the toolbox for…

physics.optics2025

Perfect Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices

Haifa Fan, Qian Cao, Xin Liu +2

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) with transverse orbital angular momentum have emerged as a significant research topic. While various STOV fields have been explore…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Ultrafast bursts of tailored spatiotemporal vortex pulses

Xin Liu, Chunhao Liang, Qian Cao +2

Orbital angular momentums (OAMs) of light can be categorized into longitudinal OAM (L-OAM) and transverse OAM (T-OAM). Light carrying time-varying L-OAM, known as self-torqued ligh…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Spatiotemporal optical vortices with controllable radial and azimuthal quantum numbers

Xin Liu, Qian Cao, Nianjia Zhang +3

Optical spatiotemporal vortices with transverse photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently become a focal point of research. In this work we theoretically and experimental…

physics.optics2021★ 2 cited

Generation of spatiotemporal optical vortices with partial temporal coherence

Amal Mirando, Yimin Zang, Qiwen Zhan +1

Recently, a spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) with a transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been generated from coherent ultrafast pulses using mode-locked lasers. In con…