TY - JOUR KW - Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics KW - Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials AU - Yijie Shen AU - Qiwen Zhan AU - Logan Wright AU - Demetrios Christodoulides AU - Frank Wise AU - Alan Willner AU - Kai-heng Zou AU - Zhe Zhao AU - Miguel Porras AU - Andy Chong AU - Chenhao Wan AU - Konstantin Bliokh AU - Chen-Ting Liao AU - Carlos Hernández-García AU - Margaret Murnane AU - Murat Yessenov AU - Ayman Abouraddy AU - Liang Wong AU - Michael Go AU - Suraj Kumar AU - Cheng Guo AU - Shanhui Fan AU - Nikitas Papasimakis AU - Nikolay Zheludev AU - Lu Chen AU - Wenqi Zhu AU - Amit Agrawal AU - Mickael Mounaix AU - Nicolas Fontaine AU - Joel Carpenter AU - Spencer Jolly AU - Christophe Dorrer AU - Benjamín Alonso AU - Ignacio Lopez-Quintas AU - Miguel López-Ripa AU - Íñigo Sola AU - Junyi Huang AU - Hongliang Zhang AU - Zhichao Ruan AU - Ahmed Dorrah AU - Federico Capasso AU - Andrew Forbes AB -

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as well as ultra-intense energy concentration and extraction. It also holds the key to unlock new extraordinary fundamental physical effects. Traditionally, spatiotemporal light pulses are always treated as spatiotemporally separable wave packet as solution of the Maxwell’s equations. In the past decade, however, more generalized forms of spatiotemporally nonseparable solution started to emerge with growing importance for their striking physical effects. This roadmap intends to highlight the recent advances in the creation and control of increasingly complex spatiotemporally sculptured pulses, from spatiotemporally separable to complex nonseparable states, with diverse geometric and topological structures, presenting a bird’s eye viewpoint on the zoology of spatiotemporal light fields and the outlook of future trends and open challenges.

BT - Journal of Optics DA - 2023-08 DO - 10.1088/2040-8986/ace4dc IS - 9 N2 -

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as well as ultra-intense energy concentration and extraction. It also holds the key to unlock new extraordinary fundamental physical effects. Traditionally, spatiotemporal light pulses are always treated as spatiotemporally separable wave packet as solution of the Maxwell’s equations. In the past decade, however, more generalized forms of spatiotemporally nonseparable solution started to emerge with growing importance for their striking physical effects. This roadmap intends to highlight the recent advances in the creation and control of increasingly complex spatiotemporally sculptured pulses, from spatiotemporally separable to complex nonseparable states, with diverse geometric and topological structures, presenting a bird’s eye viewpoint on the zoology of spatiotemporal light fields and the outlook of future trends and open challenges.

PB - IOP Publishing PY - 2023 EP - 093001 T2 - Journal of Optics TI - Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields VL - 25 SN - 2040-8978, 2040-8986 ER -