Roadmap on structured waves
Abstract
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave. Even the interference of two plane waves, or a single inhomogeneous (evanescent) wave, provides a number of nontrivial phenomena and additional functionalities as compared to a single plane wave. Complex wavefields with inhomogeneities in the amplitude, phase, and polarization, including topological structures and singularities, underpin modern nanooptics and photonics, yet they are equally important, e.g., for quantum matter waves, acoustics, water waves, etc. Structured waves are crucial in optical and electron microscopy, wave propagation and scattering, imaging, communications, quantum optics, topological and non-Hermitian wave systems, quantum condensed-matter systems, optomechanics, plasmonics and metamaterials, optical and acoustic manipulation, and so forth. This Roadmap is written collectively by prominent researchers and aims to survey the role of structured waves in various areas of wave physics. Providing background, current research, and anticipating future developments, it will be of interest to a wide cross-disciplinary audience.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.05349,
title = {Roadmap on structured waves},
author = {K. Y. Bliokh and E. Karimi and M. J. Padgett and M. A. Alonso and M. R. Dennis and A. Dudley and A. Forbes and S. Zahedpour and S. W. Hancock and H. M. Milchberg and S. Rotter and F. Nori and Ş. K. Özdemir and N. Bender and H. Cao and P. B. Corkum and C. Hernández-García and H. Ren and Y. Kivshar and M. G. Silveirinha and N. Engheta and A. Rauschenbeutel and P. Schneeweiss and J. Volz and D. Leykam and D. A. Smirnova and K. Rong and B. Wang and E. Hasman and M. F. Picardi and A. V. Zayats and F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño and C. Yang and J. Ren and A. B. Khanikaev and A. Alù and E. Brasselet and M. Shats and J. Verbeeck and P. Schattschneider and D. Sarenac and D. G. Cory and D. Pushin and M. Birk and A. Gorlach and I. Kaminer and F. Cardano and L. Marrucci and M. Krenn and F. Marquardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05349},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
110 pages, many figures