Structured light, especially beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has gained
much interest due to its unique amplitude and phase structures. In terms of communication …

Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

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 …

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 …

As an indispensable complement to an integer vortex beam, the fractional vortex beam has
unique physical properties such as radially notched intensity distribution, complex phase …

Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

Geometric arrays of vortices found in various systems owe their regular structure to mutual
interactions within a confined system. In optics, such vortex crystals may form spontaneously …

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 …

Metasurfaces, artificial 2D structures, have been widely used for the design of various
functionalities in optics. Jones matrix, a 2× 2 matrix with eight parameters, provides the most …

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) from lasers holds promise for compact, at-source
solutions for applications ranging from imaging to communications. However, conjugate …