Partially coherent light beam shaping via complex spatial coherence structure engineering [PDF]
Advances in Physics: X, 2022 The techniques of optical beam shaping have enabled progress in a broad range of interdisciplinary science and engineering, owing to the unique properties and promising applications of their created structured light.
Yahong Chen, Fei Wang, Yangjian Cai
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Spatial coherence filtering of normal incidence light through leaky mode engineering
AIP Advances, 2022 Filtering light by coherence by metasurfaces would enable compact, integrable coherence filters. A recent such proposal centered on a metasurface of zigzags.
Hang Li +9 more
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Synthesis of Robust Full Poincaré Polarization States via Spatial Coherence Engineering
PhotonicsThe full Poincaré (FP) beam, encompassing all possible polarization states in its beam cross-section, has demonstrated advantages in various applications. However, conventional FP beams are typically considered as spatially fully coherent, rendering them
Ruihui Zhang +5 more
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Switching of three-dimensional optical cages using spatial coherence engineering
APL PhotonicsPrecisely capturing and manipulating microparticles is the key to exploring microscopic mysteries. Optical tweezers play a crucial role in facilitating these tasks. However, existing optical tweezers are limited by their dependence on specific beam modes,
Ying Xu +6 more
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Robust far-field imaging by spatial coherence engineering
Opto-Electronic Advances, 2021 The degree of coherence (DOC) function that characterizes the second-order correlations at any two points in a light field is shown to provide a new degree of freedom for carrying information.
Yonglei Liu +5 more
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Engineering spatial coherence in lattices of polariton condensates [PDF]
Optica, 2021 Artificial lattices of coherently coupled macroscopic states are at the heart of applications ranging from solving hard combinatorial optimization problems to simulating complex many-body physical systems. The size and complexity of the problems scale with the extent of coherence across the lattice.
Tamsin Cookson +2 more
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Ultra-robust informational metasurfaces based on spatial coherence structures engineering
Light: Science & ApplicationsOptical information transmission is vital in modern optics and photonics due to its concurrent and multi-dimensional nature, leading to tremendous applications such as optical microscopy, holography, and optical sensing.
Leixin Liu +7 more
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Engineering turbulence resilience in Bessel-Vortex beams through partial coherence and topological charge pairing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEngineering optical resilience against atmospheric turbulence is essential for robust free-space photonic technologies. Here, we demonstrate that dual partially coherent Bessel-Vortex beams—with engineered topological charge pairing—exhibit unprecedented
Jalil Jafari Dashkasan +2 more
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Ultra-coherent meta-emitter tailors arbitrary thermal wavefront [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsConventional coherent light-field manipulation techniques inherently conflict with the spatiotemporal incoherence of thermal radiation sources. While recent advances in thermophotonics have facilitated directional thermal emission, arbitrary thermal ...
Rui Chen +12 more
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Spatial coherence control and analysis via micromirror-based mixed-state ptychography
New Journal of Physics, 2021 Flexible and fast control of the phase and amplitude of coherent light, enabled by digital micromirror devices (DMDs) and spatial light modulators, has been a driving force for recent advances in optical tweezers, nonlinear microscopy, and wavefront ...
Ruslan Röhrich +3 more
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