Engineering photonic angular momentum with structured light: a review

J Chen, C Wan, Q Zhan - Advanced Photonics, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light with inhomogeneous phase, amplitude, and polarization spatial distributions
that represent an infinite-dimensional space of eigenstates for light as the ideal carrier can …

[PDF][PDF] Photonic spin Hall effect: fundamentals and emergent applications

S Liu, S Chen, S Wen, H Luo - Opto-Electronic Science, 2022 - researching.cn
The photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) refers to the transverse spin separation of photons with
opposite spin angular momentum, after the beam passes through an optical interface or …

Optical trapping gets structure: Structured light for advanced optical manipulation

E Otte, C Denz - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The pace of innovations in the field of optical trapping has ramped up in the past couple of
years. The implementation of structured light, leading to groundbreaking inventions such as …

Roadmap on structured light

H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, A Forbes, MV Berry… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured light refers to the generation and application of custom light fields. As the tools
and technology to create and detect structured light have evolved, steadily the applications …

Creating longitudinally varying vector vortex beams with an all‐dielectric metasurface

C Zheng, J Li, J Liu, J Li, Z Yue, H Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vector vortex beams have attracted considerable research attention owing to their unique
optical properties, and have been explored in vortex filtering, photon entanglement, and the …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Recent advances in the spin Hall effect of light

X Ling, X Zhou, K Huang, Y Liu, CW Qiu… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light, as an analogue of the SHE in electronic systems, is a
promising candidate for investigating the SHE in semiconductor spintronics/valleytronics …

Spatiotemporal vortex pulses: angular momenta and spin-orbit interaction

KY Bliokh - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital
angular momentum were generated experimentally [Optica 6, 1547 (2019) OPTIC8 2334 …

Transverse and longitudinal angular momenta of light

KY Bliokh, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We review basic physics and novel types of optical angular momentum. We start with a
theoretical overview of momentum and angular momentum properties of generic optical …

Roadmap on structured waves

KY Bliokh, E Karimi, MJ Padgett, MA Alonso… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …