Cylindrical vector beams: from mathematical concepts to applications

By Q. Zhan. 2009

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Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission. (2014, background): “It has been recently shown that cylindrical vector beams show unique features such as focus shaping when focused with a high numerical aperture lens [29].”
Roadmap on structured light (2016, background): “A336, 16590 [2] Dennis M R, O'Holleran, K & Padgett, M J, 2009, Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities Progress in Optics 53, 293-363 [3] Nye J F, 1999, Natural focusing and fine structure of light: Caustics and wave dislocations (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol) [”
High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons (2016, background): “The polarization distributions contain only linearly polarized states, and such beams are commonly called vector vortex beams [25]; in the case of {| ϕ j } , the linear polarizations vary across the transverse plane.”
Generation of arbitrary vector vortex beams on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere (2017, background): “aging [1], vectorial structure and propagation model analysis”
Nonseparable States of Light: From Quantum to Classical (2022, background): “Such cylindrical vector nature just performs as a platform to hold space-polarization nonseparable states [138], as the subsystem of the pulse.”