Innovations in Structured Optical Field: From Fundamentals to Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2026 | Viewed by 2525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vector optical beam; structured light; bessel beam; Poincaré sphere
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, the structured optical field—shaped by the spatial modulation of amplitude, phase, and polarization—has been a driving force in the advancement of modern optics. The properties of structured optical fields in propagation, focusing and interactions with matters enable a wide range of applications, including metrology, optical tweezers, optical communication and microscopes. In recent years, the development of high-dimensional light field manipulation has led to novel spatiotemporal and topological properties of structured optical fields, resulting in new theories and applications across optics and its interdisciplinary fields. This Special Issue highlights the latest theoretical, experimental and applied studies on structured optical fields to provide useful theoretical and technical references for interested readers. In this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles and reviews that are related to (but not limited to) the following topics:
- High-dimensional light field manipulation;
- Tight focusing of structured optical field;
- Optical spin–orbital angular momentum interaction;
- Optical micro-manipulation;
- Topological photonics;
- Nonlinear propagation of structured optical fields;
- Rotational Doppler effect;
- Spatiotemporally coupled optical fields;
- Metrology based on structured optical field;
- Orbital angular momentum multiplexing;
- Metasurface.
Dr. Jia-Qi Lü
Dr. Zhi-Cheng Ren
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structured light
- light field manipulation
- vector optical field/beam
- vortex optical beam
- orbital angular momentum
- rotational Doppler effect
- holography
- spatiotemporal optical vortices
- spatial multiplexing
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