Controlling the various degrees‐of‐freedom (DoFs) of structured light at both quantum and
classical levels is of paramount importance in optics. It is a conventional paradigm to treat …

Spatial light modulators, as dynamic flat-panel optical devices, have witnessed rapid
development over the past two decades, concomitant with the advancements in micro-and …

Exploring the physics and potential applications of vectorially structured light with
propagation-invariant transverse structures has benefited many areas of modern optics and …

Optical vortices are beams of laser light with screw symmetry in their wavefront. With a
corresponding azimuthal dependence in optical phase, they convey orbital angular …

We introduce the space-time (ST) vector light sheet. This unique one-dimensional ST wave
packet is characterized by classical entanglement (CE), a correlation between at least two …

Complex vector light modes with a spatial variant polarization distribution have become
topical of late, enabling the development of novel applications in numerous research fields …

Complex vector modes represent a general state of light nonseparable in their spatial and
polarization degrees of freedom, which have inspired a wide variety of novel applications …

Introducing randomness into structured light beams will open up new degrees of freedom
(DOFs) in the light fields, such as degree of polarization and spatial coherence. However …

Complex vector modes are opening burgeoning opportunities for a wide variety of
applications and therefore the flexible manipulation of their various properties has become a …

In this work, we propose and demonstrate experimentally a new family of vector beams, the
helico-conical vector beams (HCVBs), whose spatial degree of freedom is encoded in the …