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We demonstrate that a planar and ultrathin binary lens can focus an azimuthally polarized beam with vortical phase (APV) to a subwavelength spot of transverse polarization. The results elaborates that, in the multi-layer medium, this…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-17 Kun Huang , Huapeng Ye , Hong Liu , Jinghua Teng , Swee Ping Yeo , Cheng-Wei Qiu

We present an inline optical device consisting of four optical components that produce a laser field consisting of two sub-beams where one is radially polarized and the other is linearly polarized. In the focus, the radially polarized…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 James Strohaber

We analyze the propagation dynamics of radially polarized symmetric Airy beams (R-SABs) in a (2+1)-dimensional optical system with fractional diffraction, modeled by the fractional Schr\"odinger equation (FSE) characterized by the L\'evy…

Rapid and programmable shaping of light fields is central to modern microscopy, display technologies, optical communications and sensing, quantum engineering, and quantum information processing. Current wavefront shaping technologies face a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xin Wei , Zeyang Li , Abhishek V. Karve , Adam L. Shaw , David I. Schuster , Jonathan Simon

Beam manipulation is of paramount importance in wave engineering, enabling diverse beam shapes like pencil beams, flat-top beams, and isoflux beams to cater to various application missions. Among the beams, shaping flat-top and isoflux…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Yang Cai , Peng Mei , Gert Frølund Pedersen , Shuai Zhang

Controlling the longitudinal phase space of high-brightness relativistic electron beams is crucial for advancing a broad spectrum of charged-particle-based instrumentation and scientific frontiers. A generalized method for achieving this…

Ultrasonic superresolution images can be generated by means of (super) focusing acoustic beams to subwavelength dimensions or using algorithm-based methods. Here, we demonstrate that ultrasonic pulses which are superfocused by a ball-shaped…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Victor H. S. Santos , Everton B. Lima , Andre L. Baggio , Jose H. Lopes , Glauber T. Silva

Two transformation-optics inspired flat lenses are used to build up an optical system capable to transpose an area surrounding the object focal point in a magnified area surrounding the image focal point. The object and image focal points…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Mircea Giloan , Robert Gutt

Measuring the field of visible light with high spatial resolution has been challenging, as many established methods only detect a focus-averaged signal. Here, we introduce a near-field method for optical field sampling that overcomes that…

We report on the experimental realization of an atom optical device, that allows scanning of an atomic beam. We used a time-modulated evanescent wave field above a glass surface to diffract a continuous beam of metastable Neon atoms at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hilmar Oberst , Shigenori Kasashima , Victor I. Balykin , Fujio Shimizu

Controlled interaction of laser light with electron beams is fundamental for ultrafast electron microscopy and electron-based quantum optics, yet their direct coupling is forbidden in free space. Here we use longitudinally polarized light…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 J. Kuttruff , L. Möhrle , L. Ciorciaro , L. Schmidt-Mende , P. Baum

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) utilizes an aircraft-carried antenna to emit electromagnetic pulses and detect the returning echoes. As the aircraft travels across a designated area, it synthesizes a large virtual aperture to improve image…

Advances in the amplification and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses has led to revolutions in several areas. Examples include chirped pulse amplification for generating high peak-power lasers, power-scalable amplification techniques,…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 C. R. Phillips , B. W. Mayer , L. Gallmann , U. Keller

We present a laser beam shaping method using acousto-optic deflection of light and discuss its application to dipole trapping of ultracold atoms. By driving the acousto-optic deflector with multiple frequencies, we generate an array of…

Superpositions of paraxial laser beam modes to generate atom-optical lenses based on the optical dipole force are investigated theoretically. Thin, wide, parabolic, cylindrical and circular atom lenses with numerical apertures much greater…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Ole Steuernagel

We design and characterize phase-modulated, ultra-compact, silicon-based axilens devices that combine efficient point focusing and grating selectivity within scalable 4-level phase mask configurations. The proposed designs are polarization…

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This study introduces a novel method for the deterministic fabrication of metallic nanostructures with controlled geometry and composition on suspended, single mode tapered optical nanofibers (TNFs) using a tailored Blurred Electron Beam…

Multimode fibers (MMFs) have recently reemerged as attractive avenues for nonlinear effects due to their high-dimensional spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics and scalability for high power. High-brightness MMF sources with effective control…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-07 Tong Qiu , Honghao Cao , Kunzan Liu , Li-Yu Yu , Manuel Levy , Eva Lendaro , Fan Wang , Sixian You

Free-space light beams with complex intensity patterns, or non-trivial phase structure, are demanded in diverse fields, ranging from classical and quantum optical communications, to manipulation and imaging of microparticles and cells.…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 Andrea Crespi , Francesca Bragheri

We demonstrate numerically a method of focusing two-photon field inside one-dimensional random media. The approach is based on coherent control of backscattering achieved by adaptive spectral pulse shaping. The spectral phases of a…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-02 Alex C. Han , Valery Milner