arXiv Open Access 2022

Self-healing of structured light: a review

Yijie Shen Shankar Pidishety Isaac Nape Angela Dudley
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Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a comprehensive review of the history and development of self-healing effects, especially highlighting its importance in vector vortex beams carrying spin and orbital angular momenta. Moreover, an unified zoology of self-healing, structured light is proposed to unveil a deeper understanding of its physical mechanism and provide a bird's eye view on diverse forms of self-healing effects of different kinds of complex structured light. Finally, we outline the open challenges we are facing, potential opportunities and future trends for both fundamental physics and applications.

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Yijie Shen

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Shankar Pidishety

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Isaac Nape

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Angela Dudley

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Shen, Y., Pidishety, S., Nape, I., Dudley, A. (2022). Self-healing of structured light: a review. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04767

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