Structured Light Beams: Science and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2024 | Viewed by 5817
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser engineering; laser beam shaping; singular optics; nonlinear optics; beam optics; light–matter interaction; scalar and vector modes; bio-imaging; diffractive optics
Interests: laser physics; laser beam shaping; micro-optics; light–matter interaction; structured lights; non-diffracting beams; phase-locked lasers; diffractive optical elements; metalenses; OAM beams; computer-generated holography; optical imaging; point spread function; apodization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, structured light beams have garnered tremendous interest owing to their wide range of applications in all branches of science. The modulations in the transverse intensity and phase of structured light beams provide an extra degree of freedom in light applications. However, the spatiotemporal control of light beams offers a full degree of freedom to generate high-dimensional structured light fields. Further, the combination of polarization and structured light beams produces vector beams with a non-uniform polarization distribution. Well-developed computational and experimental techniques can be realized for use in light beam shaping to acquire the desired high-quality structured light beam for any particular application. Some concrete applications with promising benefits are super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, volumetric bio-imaging, particle trapping, secure optical communication, and the creation of micro/nanostructures on material surfaces.
The Photonics Journal, published by MDPI, is welcoming submissions for a Special Issue entitled “Structured Light Beams: Science and Applications”. This Special Issue is focused on the recent developments in various kinds of structured light beams and their potential impact on applications in the multidisciplinary sciences. As part of this Special Issue, we welcome high-quality research reviews, as well as theoretical, computational, and experimental original contributions on structured light field generation, characterization and their possible role in concrete applications. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Structured light beam generation using diffractive optical elements;
- Direct generation of structured light beams from the laser cavity;
- Application of structured light beams in biological, chemical, and physical sciences;
- Structured light fields with unconventional propagation characteristics;
- Peculiarities in the generation of high-order harmonics with structured light beams;
- Dielectric metalenses for forming and controlling structured light;
- Non-diffracting light fields in optical communication;
- Ultrashort optical fields in manufacturing and material processing;
- Imaging with exotic light fields.
Dr. A Srinivasa Rao
Dr. Andra Naresh Kumar Reddy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structured light beams
- singular optics
- nonlinear optics of structured light
- bio-imaging
- optical communications
- structured light-matter interaction
- laser beam shaping
- holography
- incoherent imaging
- material manipulation with structured light
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Focal plane intensity structures of tightly focused linear basis hybrid order Poincaré sphere beams
Authors: Sushanta Kumar Pal 1,∗ and Ady Arie 1
Affiliation: 1 School of Electrical Engineering, Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Abstract: In this article, tight focusing of linear basis hybrid order Poincaré sphere (HyOPS) beams embedded with Stokes vortices of order ±1 and ±2 are studied. The focal plane intensity distributions of these optical fields are found to depend on the helicity, polarity (positive/negative), and the absolute value of the Stokes singularity index of the singular point. In the case of linear basis (X/Y) HyOPS beams, the strengths of the transverse components at the focal plane are found to be different. However, for the linear basis (D/A) HyOPS beams the strengths of the transverse components at the focal plane are found to be the same. For all the linear basis HyOPS beams both the longitudinal and transverse field components are found to be embedded with phase vortices of charge ±1. The present study will be important to understand the fundamental aspects of linear basis HyOPS beams.
Title: Angular deviations, lateral displacements,\ and transversal symmetry breaking: An analytical overview
Authors: Stefano De Leo; Marco Mazzeo
Affiliation: State University of Campinas
Abstract: The study of a Gaussian laser beam interacting with an optical prism, both through reflection and transmission, provides a technical tool to examine deviations from the optical path as dictated by geometric optics principles. These deviations encompass alterations in the reflection and refraction angles, as predicted by the reflection and Snell laws, along with lateral displacements in the case of total internal reflection. The analysis of the angular distributions of both the reflected and transmitted beams allows to understand the underlying causes of these deviations and displacements and it aids in formulating analytic expressions capable of characterizing these optical phenomena. The study also extends to the examination of transverse symmetry breaking, a phenomenon observed in the laser beam as it traverses the oblique interface of the prism. It is essential to underscore that this analytical overview does not strive to function as an exhaustive literature review of these optical phenomena. Instead, its primary objective is to provide a comprehensive and self-referential treatment and give universal analytical formulas intended to facilitate experimental validations or applications in various technological contexts.
Title: Towards a geometrical representation of elliptical Ince-Gaussian vector beams
Authors: (1) Dayver Daza Salgado, (1) Edgar Medina Segura, (2) Valeria Rodriguez Fajardo, (3) Benjamin Perez-García and (1) Carmelo Rosales Guzman
Affiliation: (1) Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C., Loma del Bosque 115, Colonia Lomas del Campestre, 37150 León, Gto., México
(2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, United States of America
(3) Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico