An overview of the recent developments in the field of cylindrical vector beams is provided.
As one class of spatially variant polarization, cylindrical vector beams are the axially …

Optical vortex beams, possessing spatial polarization or phase singularities, have intriguing
properties such as the ability to yield super-resolved spots under focussing, and the ability to …

Mode division multiplexing (MDM)–using a multimode optical fiber's N spatial modes as data
channels to transmit N independent data streams–has received interest as it can potentially …

In this article, we review recent developments in the field of surface electromagnetic wave
holography. The holography principle is used as a tool to solve an inverse engineering …

Quantum mechanics is now a mature topic dating back more than a century. During its
scientific development, it fostered many technological advances that now are integrated into …

Beams with polarization singularities have attracted immense recent attention in a wide
array of scientific and technological disciplines. We demonstrate a class of optical fibers in …

We report a new type of holographic interface, which is able to manipulate the three
fundamental properties of light (phase, amplitude, and polarization) over a broad …

Poincaré beams have a spatial mode that correlates transverse spatial coordinates with
states of polarization. The state of polarization may vary along one coordinate. For example …

To generate a radially polarized laser beam we designed and fabricated a new Brewster
optical element that consists of convex and concave conical prisms. The lateral surface of …

This book deals with theoretical bases of the modern optics division concerned with
coherent light fields with singularities characterized by phase uncertainty. Singular light …