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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…

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

By means of the variational method and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of stable 3D nonlinear modes, viz. vortex ``bullets'', in the form of pulsed beams carrying orbital angular momentum, that can self-trap in a 2D…

We introduce a new form of stable spatio-temporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay of local and nonlocal nonlinearities. Pulsed self-trapped light beams in media with both electronic and molecular nonlinear responses…

The dynamics of 3D Airy-vortex wave packets is studied under the action of strong self-focusing Kerr nonlinearity. Emissions of nonlinear 3D waves out of the main wave packets with the topological charges were demonstrated. Due to the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rodislav Driben , Torsten Meier

Structured light beams, such as optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum, are essential for applications ranging from low-power optical communications to high-intensity laser-matter interactions. However, scaling their power and…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-29 Hossein Fathi , Rafael F. Barros , Regina Gumenyuk

We present a novel scheme of structured light laser with an astigmatic mode converter (AMC) as intracavity element, first enabling the generation of Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes with fully controlled two-dimensional (2D) indices (m,n) and…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-21 Jing Pan , Yijie Shen , Zhensong Wan , Xing Fu , Hengkang Zhang , Qiang Liu

Over the last dozen of years, the area of accelerating waves has made considerable advances not only in terms of fundamentals and experimental demonstrations but also in connection to a wide range of applications. Starting from the…

We propose a framework for designing coherent optical environments that enable versatile and dynamic optical manipulation. In contrast to conventional material-based near-field platforms, our approach employs a structured coherent light…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Xiaoshu Zhao , Xu Yuan , Hongxia Zheng , Huajin Chen , Zhifang Lin

In this letter, we introduce a new class of light beam, the circular symmetric Airy beam (CSAB), which arises from the extensions of the one dimensional (1D) spectrum of Airy beam from rectangular coordinates to cylindrical ones. The CSAB…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-10 Chuangjie Xu

Complex vector modes represent a general state of light nonseparable in their spatial and polarization degrees of freedom, which have inspired a wide variety of novel applications and phenomena, such as their unexpected propagation…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-01 Xiao-bo Hu , Bo Zhao , Rui-pin Chen , Carmelo Rosales Guzman

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial vortex states of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interaction confined by a three-dimensional optical lattice. Such vortex-like structures include planar vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Airy beams, celebrated for their self-acceleration, diffraction-free propagation, and self-healing properties, have garnered significant interest in optics and photonics, with applications spanning ultrafast optics, laser processing,…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-09 Zhaofeng Huang , Xiaolin Su , Qian Cao , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

We propose a scheme to generate (3+1)-dimensional slow-light Airy wave packets in a resonant $\Lambda$-type three-level atomic gas via electromagnetically induced transparency. We show that in the absence of dispersion the Airy wave packets…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chao Hang , Guoxiang Huang

The ability to precisely focus optical beams is crucial for numerous applications, yet conventional Gaussian beams exhibit slow intensity transitions near the focal point, limiting their effectiveness in scenarios requiring sharp focusing.…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 Qian Cao , Nianjia Zhang , Chenghao Li , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

The emergence of coherent rotating structures is a phenomenon characteristic of both classical and quantum 2D turbulence. In this work we show theoretically that the coherent vortex structures that emerge in decaying 2D quantum turbulence…

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Laser-triggered ionization injection is a promising way of generating controllable high-quality electrons in plasma-based acceleration. We show that ionization injection of electrons into a fully nonlinear plasma wave wake using a laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xinlu Xu , Jorge Vieira , Mark Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren Mori

Airy waves, known for their non-diffracting and self-accelerating properties, have been extensively studied in spatial and temporal domains, but their spatiotemporal (ST) counterparts remain largely unexplored. We report the first…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-02 Xiaolin Su , Andy Chong , Qian Cao , Qiwen Zhan

Achieving precise control of light intensity in 3D volumes is highly in demand in many applications in optics. Various wavefront shaping techniques have been utilized to reconstruct a target amplitude profile within a 3D space. However,…

We present the design and simulation of a three-dimensional photonic crystal waveguide for linear laser-driven acceleration in vacuum. The structure confines a synchronous speed-of-light accelerating mode in both transverse dimensions. We…

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