All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

This review describes the emerging field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics concerned
with the interaction of photons propagating in a waveguide with localized quantum emitters …

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 …

Today, it is well known that light possesses a linear momentum that is along the propagation
direction. Besides, scientists also discovered that light can possess an angular momentum …

The interest in tailoring light in all its degrees of freedom is steadily gaining traction, driven
by the tremendous developments in the toolkit for the creation, control and detection of what …

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the cornerstones in modern optics
and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits, particle manipulation, metrology …

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 …

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital
angular momentum were generated experimentally [Optica 6, 1547 (2019) OPTIC8 2334 …

Transverse spin momentum related to the spin angular momentum (SAM) of light has been
theoretically studied recently and predicted to generate an intriguing optical lateral force …