Roadmap on multimode light shaping

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Marco Piccardo, Vincent Ginis, Andrew Forbes, Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson, Haoran Ren, Ahmed H. Dorrah, Federico Capasso, Firehun T. Dullo, Balpreet S. Ahluwalia, Antonio Ambrosio, Sylvain Gigan, Nicolas Treps, Markus Hiekkamaki, Robert Fickler, Michael Kues, David Moss, Roberto Morandotti, Johann Riemensberger, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Jérôme Faist, Giacomo Scalari, Nathalie Picqué, Theodor W. Hansch, Giulio Cerullo, Cristian Manzoni, Luigi A. Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla, Lorenzo Columbo, Alessandra Gatti, Franco Prati, Abbas Shiri, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Andrea Alu, Emanuele Galiffi, J. B. Pendry, Paloma A. Huidobro

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Our ability to generate new distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in recent years. At the most fundamental level, these light patterns are obtained by ingeniously combining different electromagnetic modes. Interestingly, the modal superposition occurs in the spatial, temporal as well as spatio-temporal domain. This generalized concept of structured light is being applied across the entire spectrum of optics: generating classical and quantum states of light, harnessing linear and nonlinear light-matter interactions, and advancing applications in microscopy, spectroscopy, holography, communication, and synchronization. This Roadmap highlights the common roots of these different techniques and thus establishes links between research areas that complement each other seamlessly. We provide an overview of all these areas, their backgrounds, current research, and future developments. We highlight the power of multimodal light manipulation and want to inspire new eclectic approaches in this vibrant research community.

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Organisation(s): Institute of Photonics
External Organisation(s): Center for Nanotechnology Innovation, Pisa
Harvard University
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
University of the Witwatersrand
Weizmann Institute of Science
Macquarie University
University of Tromso
École normale supérieure (Paris)
Tampere University
Swinburne University of Technology
INRS Universite d'avant-garde
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
ETH Zurich
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ)
National Research Council Italy (CNR)
Politecnico di Milano
University of Insubria
Politecnico di Bari
Politecnico di Torino (POLITO)
University of Central Florida
City University of New York
Imperial College London
Universidade de Lisboa
Type: Article
Journal: Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)
Volume: 24
ISSN: 2040-8978
Publication date: 01.2022
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic version(s): https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03550 (Access: Open )
https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/ac3a9d (Access: Closed )
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Roadmap on multimode light shaping

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