Integrated Structured Light Architectures
Optics
2020-04-01 v1 Applied Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The structural versatility of light underpins an outstanding collection of optical phenomena where both geometrical and topological states of light can dictate how matter will respond or display. Light possesses multiple degrees of freedom such as amplitude, and linear, spin angular, and orbital angular momenta, but the ability to adaptively engineer the spatio-temporal distribution of all these characteristics is primarily curtailed by technologies used to impose any desired structure to light. We describe a foundational demonstration that examines a laser architecture offering integrated spatio-temporal field control and programmability, thereby presenting unique opportunities for generating light by design to exploit its topology.
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@article{arxiv.2003.14400,
title = {Integrated Structured Light Architectures},
author = {Randy Lemons and Wei Liu and Josef C. Frisch and Alan Fry and Joseph Robinson and Steve Smith and Sergio Carbajo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.14400},
year = {2020}
}