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Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Optics 2023-08-16 v1

Abstract

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents the holy grail of the human everlasting pursue of ultrafast information transmission and processing as well as ultra-intense energy concentration and extraction. It also holds the key to unlock new extraordinary fundamental physical effects. Traditionally, spatiotemporal light pulses are always treated as spatiotemporally separable wave packet as solution of the Maxwell's equations. In the past decade, however, more generalized forms of spatiotemporally nonseparable solution started to emerge with growing importance for their striking physical effects. This roadmap intends to highlight the recent advances in the creation and control of increasingly complex spatiotemporally sculptured pulses, from spatiotemporally separable to complex nonseparable states, with diverse geometric and topological structures, presenting a bird's eye viewpoint on the zoology of spatiotemporal light fields and the outlook of future trends and open challenges.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11273,
  title  = {Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields},
  author = {Yijie Shen and Qiwen Zhan and Logan G. Wright and Demetrios N. Christodoulides and Frank W. Wise and Alan E. Willner and Zhe Zhao and Kai-heng Zou and Chen-Ting Liao and Carlos Hernández-García and Margaret Murnane and Miguel A. Porras and Andy Chong and Chenhao Wan and Konstantin Y. Bliokh and Murat Yessenov and Ayman F. Abouraddy and Liang Jie Wong and Michael Go and Suraj Kumar and Cheng Guo and Shanhui Fan and Nikitas Papasimakis and Nikolay I. Zheludev and Lu Chen and Wenqi Zhu and Amit Agrawal and Spencer W. Jolly and Christophe Dorrer and Benjamín Alonso and Ignacio Lopez-Quintas and Miguel López-Ripa and Íñigo J. Sola and Yiqi Fang and Qihuang Gong and Yunquan Liu and Junyi Huang and Hongliang Zhang and Zhichao Ruan and Mickael Mounaix and Nicolas K. Fontaine and Joel Carpenter and Ahmed H. Dorrah and Federico Capasso and Andrew Forbes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11273},
  year   = {2023}
}

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