About this Research Topic
The main goal of this Research Topic is to bring together novel and effective techniques for generating and tailoring different types of optical beams, any types of optical vortices and also novel methods for characterizing the beam's shape, phase, and polarization state.
Within the scope of this Research Topic, authors are encouraged to submit the findings of their recent projects on beam shaping. Studies on shaping and structuring the amplitude, phase and polarization of the optical beams are invited. In particular, we warmly welcome articles covering the following themes:
- Novel, reliable, and flexible methods and techniques of shaping laser beams.
- Novel approaches for generating integer, fractional and perfect vortex beams.
- Topological charge-carrying beams as source of optical angular momentum (OAM).
- Innovative approaches addressing measuring and detecting OAM of optical vortices.
- Newly established studies of vortex-vortex or vortex-matter interactions.
- Physics of optical vortex fields.
This Research Topic welcomes unpublished articles in the form of Original Research papers and Review papers from researchers, academics, and professionals all over the world.
Keywords: diffractive optics, singular optics, beam shaping, optical vortex, resonant optics
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