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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D scene reconstruction, which effectively balances rendering quality, efficiency, and speed. However, existing 3DGS approaches usually generate plausible outputs and face significant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Sicheng Yu , Zijian Wang , Hao Wang

We propose a scheme to distinguish the orbital angular momentum state of the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam based on the electromagnetically induced transparency modulated by a microwave field in atomic ensembles. We show that the transverse…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Liang Han , Mingtao Cao , Ruifeng Liu , Hao Liu , Wenge Guo , Dong Wei , Shaoyan Gao , Pei Zhang , Hong Gao

An efficient method to tune the spatial coherence of a degenerate laser over a broad range with minimum variation in the total output power is presented. It is based on varying the diameter of a spatial filter inside the laser cavity. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Micha Nixon , Brandon Redding , Asher Friesem , Hui Cao , Nir Davidson

We propose a graphene-on-grating nanostructure to enable second-order spatial differentiation computation in terahertz (THz) region. The differentiation operation is based on the interference between the direct reflected field and the…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Yisheng Fang , Yijie Lou , Zhichao Ruan

Fourier-based optical computing operations, such as spatial differentiation, have recently been realized in compact form factors using flat optics. Experimental demonstrations, however, have been limited to coherent light requiring laser…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Xiaomeng Zhang , Benfeng Bai , Hong-Bo Sun , Guofan Jin , Jason Valentine

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams reflected from a multi-layered dielectric experience a shift in their centroid that is different than that from a single interface. This has been previously investigated for linearly polarized beams and, to a…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-23 Mark T. Lusk , Mark E. Siemens , Guillermo F. Quinteiro

Fast, reprogrammable control over the transverse structure of light beams plays an essential role in applications such as structured illumination microscopy, optical trapping, and quantum information processing. Existing technologies, such…

Structured light beams, including Laguerre-Gaussian (LG), Hermite-Gaussian (HG), and perfect vortex (PV) spatial modes, have been at the forefront of modern optics due to their potential in communications, metrology, and sensing.…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Purnesh Singh Badavath , Vijay Kumar

Structured-Gaussian beams are shown to be fully and uniquely represented by a collection of points (or constellation) on the surface of the modal Majorana sphere, providing a complete generalization of the modal Poincar\'e sphere to…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-16 R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas , S. A. Wadood , A. N. Vamivakas , M. A. Alonso

A concise method of deriving expressions for Gaussian-like solutions of the paraxial and d'Alembert equations is presented. This method is based on the Hankel transform. Choosing some Gaussian base functions with slight modifications of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-07 Tomasz Radożycki

We propose a 3D Gaussian splatting-based framework for outdoor relighting that leverages intrinsic image decomposition to precisely integrate sunlight, sky radiance, and indirect lighting from unconstrained photo collections. Unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haiyang Bai , Jiaqi Zhu , Songru Jiang , Wei Huang , Tao Lu , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Runze Fu , Yanwen Guo , Lijun Chen

Orbital angular momentum is a fundamental degree of freedom of light that manifests itself even at the single photon level. The coherent generation and beaming of structured light usually requires bulky and slow components. Using wave…

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an infinite-dimensional degree of freedom of light with several applications in both classical and quantum optics. However, to fully take advantage of the potential of OAM states, reliable…

Manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is essential in OAM-based optical systems. Especially, OAM divider, which can convert the incoming OAM mode into one or several new smaller modes in proportion at different spatial…

Multi-plane light conversion (MPLC) has recently been developed as a versatile tool for manipulating spatial distributions of the optical field through repeated phase modulations. An MPLC Device consists of a series of phase masks separated…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yuanhang Zhang , Nicolas K. Fontaine

Two different experimental techniques for preparation and analyzing superpositions of the Gaussian and Laguerre-Gassian modes are presented. This is done exploiting an interferometric method on the one hand and using computer generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alipasha Vaziri , Gregor Weihs , Anton Zeilinger

We study the diffraction of a particular class of beams, composed only by a combination of azimuthally invariant guided modes of an optical fiber. We demonstrate that such beams can be obtained by injecting a Gaussian beam in a small piece…

In this work, we propose a predictor/indicator of the self-healing ability of coherent structured light beams: the field's modal content. Specifically, the fidelity between the obstructed and unobstructed beams' modal spectrum serves as a…

We show that propagating optical fields bearing an axial symmetry are not truly hollow in spite of a null electric field on-axis. The result, obtained by general arguments based upon the vectorial nature of electromagnetic fields, is of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Vasily V. Klimov , Daniel Bloch , Martial Ducloy , Jose Roberto Rios Leite

Challenge to control the quantum states of matter via light have been at the forefront of modern research on driven quantum matter. We explore the imprinting effects of structured light on superconductors, demonstrating how the quantum…