Advances in Structured Light
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 3973
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structured light with distinct spatial structures or spatiotemporal structures has become a research hotspot in the fields of optics and optoelectronics due to its unique physical properties and novel physical effects, as well as various promising potential applications. Typical examples of spatial structured light beams include vortex beams, non-diffracting beams, self-accelerating beams, vector light beams, partially coherent beams, tightly focused beams, and spatiotemporal light beams. Compared with conventional fundamental Gaussian laser beams, structured light beams exhibit a variety of novel physical effects and phenomena, such as phase singularity, diffraction-free propagation, transverse acceleration, high local intensity, angular momentum transfer, vector structure, autofocusing, superchirality, and so on. These new properties have led to many potential applications in various fields of science and technology, e.g., in optical micromanipulation, optical communications, microscopy, metrology, imaging, and quantum science, to name a few.
This Special Issue aims to report recent advances in structured light, including the characterization, generation, manipulation, propagation, and application of structured light beams.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome in this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- New types of structured light
- Descriptions of structured light
- Generation of structured light
- Detection of structured light
- Manipulation of structured light
- Propagation of structured light
- Dynamical characteristics of structured light
- Structured light–matter interaction
- Structured light in turbulence
- Structured light fields in optical fibers
- Quantum structured light
- Micromanipulation with structured light
- Communications with structured light
- Super-resolution imaging with structured light
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zhiwei Cui
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structured light
- vortex beams
- vector beams
- non-diffracting beams
- accelerating beams
- partially coherent beams
- spatiotemporal beams
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