A review of complex vector light fields and their applications

By C. Rosales-Guzmán, B. Ndagano, Andrew Forbes. Journal of Optics, 2018

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Vector beams, and in particular vector vortex beams, have found many applications in recent times, both as classical fields and as quantum states. While much attention has focused on the creation and detection of scalar optical fields, it is only recently that vector beams have found their place in the modern laboratory. In this review, we outline the fundamental concepts of vector beams, summarise the various approaches to control them in the laboratory, and give a concise overview of the many applications they have spurned.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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1. C. Rosales-Guzmán
2. Y. Arita
3. Yuxuan Ren
4. Yuanjie Yang
5. Yijie Shen
6. Mingzhou Chen

Citations in the corpus

• Optical trapping with structured light: a review (2021, background): “Controlling the polarization state of light is of paramount importance in many fields of pure and applied sciences; however, it is only in recent years that increasing attention has been given to complex vector fields, often referred to as classically entangled beams.(153,154) In optical tweezers, t”
• Nonseparable States of Light: From Quantum to Classical (2022, background): “For example, vector beams are the solutions of optical modes with nonseparability in their spatial mode and polarization DoF [31].”