Multidimensional phase singularities in nanophotonics

J Ni, C Huang, LM Zhou, M Gu, Q Song, Y Kivshar… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities

Y Shen, X Wang, Z Xie, C Min, X Fu, Q Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Ultrafast control of vortex microlasers

C Huang, C Zhang, S Xiao, Y Wang, Y Fan, Y Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The development of classical and quantum information–processing technology calls for on-
chip integrated sources of structured light. Although integrated vortex microlasers have been …

Generating optical vortex beams by momentum-space polarization vortices centred at bound states in the continuum

B Wang, W Liu, M Zhao, J Wang, Y Zhang, A Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical vortices, beams with spiral wavefronts and screw phase dislocations, have been
attracting increasing interest in various fields. Here, we theoretically propose and …

Structured light from lasers

A Forbes - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Structured light is derived from the ability to tailor light, usually referring to the spatial control
of its amplitude, phase, and polarization. Although a venerable topic that dates back to the …

Tunable topological charge vortex microlaser

Z Zhang, X Qiao, B Midya, K Liu, J Sun, T Wu, W Liu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) intrinsically carried by vortex light beams holds a
promise for multidimensional high-capacity data multiplexing, meeting the ever-increasing …

Active topological photonics

Y Ota, K Takata, T Ozawa, A Amo, Z Jia, B Kante… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Topological photonics emerged as a novel route to engineer the flow of light. Topologically
protected photonic edge modes, which are supported at the perimeters of topologically …

Reconfigurable moiré nanolaser arrays with phase synchronization

HY Luan, YH Ouyang, ZW Zhao, WZ Mao, RM Ma - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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Singular dielectric nanolaser with atomic-scale field localization

YH Ouyang, HY Luan, ZW Zhao, WZ Mao, RM Ma - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Compressing the optical field to the atomic scale opens up possibilities for directly observing
individual molecules, offering innovative imaging and research tools for both physical and …