Structured Light and Its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces

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Multiple optical trapping and binding: new routes to self-assembly (2010, background): “One of the most rapidly developing areas of modern optics concerns the production and application of structured beams [142], for example Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) vortex beams produced with the use of bifurcated gratings.”
Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators (2016, background): “terms that are often used to describe the creation of customized light fields [2,3].”
Structured Light from Lasers (2018, background): “[16] Structured light refers to the ability to customized optical fields both spatially[17,18] and temporally,[18–20] the former referring to control in amplitude (intensity), phase (wavefront), and polarization, while the latter referring to time and frequency spectrum control.”