Self-healing of structured light: a review

Y Shen, S Pidishety, I Nape, A Dudley - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being
damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a …

Shadows of structured beams in lenslike media

J Jia, H Lin, S Fu, JE Gómez-Correa, Z Li, Z Chen… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The self-healing phenomenon of structured light beams has been comprehensively
investigated for its important role in various applications including optical tweezing …

Single-shot phase retrieval for randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beams

H Zhang, J Zhu, X Lu, Z Hu, J Gao, K Liu… - Science China Physics …, 2024 - Springer
Vortex beams with orbital angular momentum play a crucial role in increasing the
information capacity in optical communications. The magnitude of orbital angular momentum …

What are the traveling waves composing the Hermite-Gauss beams that make them structured wavefields?

JA Ugalde-Ontiveros, A Jaimes-Nájera, S Luo… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
To the best of our knowledge, at the present time there is no answer to the fundamental
question stated in the title that provides a complete and satisfactory physical description of …

Structured light reconstruction by Computer-Generated hologram in defect state

Y Wang, Z Zhang, S Zhao, W He, X Li, X Wang… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
The generation of structured light from Computer-Generated Hologram (CGH) using spatial
light modulators (SLM) has a wide range of applications, but there is currently a lack of …

Utilizing structured modal beams in free-space optical communications for performance enhancement

AE Willner, H Zhou, X Su, H Song… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is a growing interest in utilizing structured beams in free-space optical (FSO)
communications. With uniquely tailored spatial amplitude and phase profiles, structured …

Self-healing of orbital angular momentum in bright twin light beams generated via four-wave mixing

JA Thachil, CR Patel, ON Verma, A Kumar - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The utilization of orthogonal modes of structured light, such as orbital angular momentum
(OAM), in optical communication has led to an increased focus on the self-healing property …

Orbital angular momentum of superpositions of optical vortices perturbed by a sector aperture

AA Kovalev, VV Kotlyar - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In optical communications, it is desirable to know some quantities describing a light field,
which are conserved on propagation or resistant to some distortions. Typically, optical vortex …

Theoretical analysis of on-axis obstructed Laguerre-Gauss beams

CM Mabena - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Advances in the generation of structured light beams have led to their increased adoption in
various applications such as laser-based material processing, optical microscopy, and …

Universal understanding of self-healing and transformation of complex structured beams based on eigenmode superposition

S Zhao, Z Zhang, X Wang, J Chen, Y Gao, X Wang… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The self-healing property of laser beams with special spatial structures is of great interest.
We take the Hermite–Gaussian (HG) eigenmode as an example, theoretically and …