TY - JOUR
T1 - Roadmap on structured waves
AU - Bliokh, Konstantin Y
AU - Karimi, Ebrahim
AU - Padgett, Miles J
AU - Alonso, Miguel A
AU - Dennis, Mark R
AU - Dudley, Angela
AU - Forbes, Andrew
AU - Zahedpour, Sina
AU - Hancock, Scott W
AU - Milchberg, Howard M
AU - Rotter, Stefan
AU - Nori, Franco
AU - Özdemir, Şahin K
AU - Bender, Nicholas
AU - Cao, Hui
AU - Corkum, Paul B
AU - Hernández-García, Carlos
AU - Ren, Haoran
AU - Kivshar, Yuri
AU - Silveirinha, Mário G
AU - Engheta, Nader
AU - Rauschenbeutel, Arno
AU - Schneeweiss, Philipp
AU - Volz, Jürgen
AU - Leykam, Daniel
AU - Smirnova, Daria A
AU - Rong, Kexiu
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Hasman, Erez
AU - Picardi, Michela F
AU - Zayats, Anatoly V
AU - Rodríguez-Fortuño, Francisco J
AU - Yang, Chenwen
AU - Ren, Jie
AU - Khanikaev, Alexander B
AU - Alù, Andrea
AU - Brasselet, Etienne
AU - Shats, Michael
AU - Verbeeck, Jo
AU - Schattschneider, Peter
AU - Sarenac, Dusan
AU - Cory, David G
AU - Pushin, Dmitry A
AU - Birk, Michael
AU - Gorlach, Alexey
AU - Kaminer, Ido
AU - Cardano, Filippo
AU - Marrucci, Lorenzo
AU - Krenn, Mario
AU - Marquardt, Florian
PY - 2023/8/30
Y1 - 2023/8/30
N2 - Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave. Even the interference of two plane waves, or of a single inhomogeneous (evanescent) wave, provides a number of nontrivial phenomena and additional functionalities as compared to a single plane wave. Complex wavefields with inhomogeneities in the amplitude, phase, and polarization, including topological structures and singularities, underpin modern nanooptics and photonics, yet they are equally important, e.g. for quantum matter waves, acoustics, water waves, etc. Structured waves are crucial in optical and electron microscopy, wave propagation and scattering, imaging, communications, quantum optics, topological and non-Hermitian wave systems, quantum condensed-matter systems, optomechanics, plasmonics and metamaterials, optical and acoustic manipulation, and so forth. This Roadmap is written collectively by prominent researchers and aims to survey the role of structured waves in various areas of wave physics. Providing background, current research, and anticipating future developments, it will be of interest to a wide cross-disciplinary audience.
AB - Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave. Even the interference of two plane waves, or of a single inhomogeneous (evanescent) wave, provides a number of nontrivial phenomena and additional functionalities as compared to a single plane wave. Complex wavefields with inhomogeneities in the amplitude, phase, and polarization, including topological structures and singularities, underpin modern nanooptics and photonics, yet they are equally important, e.g. for quantum matter waves, acoustics, water waves, etc. Structured waves are crucial in optical and electron microscopy, wave propagation and scattering, imaging, communications, quantum optics, topological and non-Hermitian wave systems, quantum condensed-matter systems, optomechanics, plasmonics and metamaterials, optical and acoustic manipulation, and so forth. This Roadmap is written collectively by prominent researchers and aims to survey the role of structured waves in various areas of wave physics. Providing background, current research, and anticipating future developments, it will be of interest to a wide cross-disciplinary audience.
UR - http://www.arxiv.org/abs/2301.05349
U2 - 10.1088/2040-8986/acea92
DO - 10.1088/2040-8986/acea92
M3 - Article
SN - 2040-8978
VL - 25
JO - Journal of Optics
JF - Journal of Optics
IS - 10
M1 - 103001
ER -