Optical beams and fields that preserve their intensity profile under propagation, full Poincaré beams which cover all possible polarizations, and aspects of orbital and spin angular momentum of light.
Propagation-invariant fields
Journal articles
- M. Yessenov, J. Free, Z. Chen, E.G. Johnson, M.P. Lavery, M.A. Alonso, and A.F. Abouraddy, “Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions,” Nature Comm. 13, 4573 (2022).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas and M.A. Alonso, “Platonic Gaussian beams: wave and ray treatment,” Opt. Lett. 45, 6759-6762 (2020).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, S.A. Wadood, A.N. Vamivakas and M.A. Alonso, “Modal Majorana sphere and hidden symmetries of structured Gaussian beams,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123093 (2020).
- A. Zannotti, C. Denz, M.A. Alonso and M.R. Dennis, “Shaping caustics into propagation-invariant light,” Nature Comm. 11, 3597 (2020).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, M.R. Dennis, and M.A. Alonso, “Generalized Gaussian beams in terms of Jones vectors,” J. Opt. 21, 084001 (2019).
- H.E. Kondakci, G.K. Atia, M.A. Alonso, and A.F. Abouraddy, “Classical entanglement underpins the invariant propagation of space-time wave packets,” Opt. Lett. 44, 2645-2648 (2019).
- M. Yessenov, L. Mach, B. Bhaduri, D. Mardani, H.E. Kondakci, G.K. Atia, M.A. Alonso, and A.F. Abouraddy, “What is the maximum differential group delay achievable by a space-time wave packet in free space?,” Opt. Express 27, 12443-12457 (2019).
- M.R. Dennis and M.A. Alonso, “Gaussian mode families for systems of rays,”J. Phys. Photon. 1, 025003 (2019).
- T. Malhotra, R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, J. Hassett, N. Vamivakas, and M.A. Alonso, “Measuring geometric phase without interferometry,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233602 (2018).
- M.A. Alonso and M.R. Dennis, “Ray-optical Poincaré sphere for structured Gaussian beams,” Optica 4, 476-486 (2017).
- J. Verbeeck, K.Y. Bliokh, I.P. Ivanov, L. Clark, R. Van Boxem, A. Béché, R. Juchtmans, G. Guzzinati, M.A. Alonso, P. Schattschneider, F. Nori, ”Theory and applications of free-electron vortex states,” Phys. Rep. 690, 1-70 (2017).
- M.R. Dennis and M.A. Alonso, “Swings and roundabouts: Optical Poincaré spheres for polarization and Gaussian beams,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 375, 20150441 (2017).
- K.J. Parker, S. Chen and M.A. Alonso, ”The ultrasound needle pulse,” IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 64, 1045-1049 (2017).
- K.J. Parker and M.A. Alonso, “Longitudinal iso-phase condition and needle pulses,” Opt. Express 24, 28669-28677 (2016).
- M.A. Alonso and M.A. Bandres, “Generation of nonparaxial accelerating fields through mirrors. II: three dimensions,” Opt. Express 22, 14738-14749 (2014).
- M.A. Alonso and M.A. Bandres, “Generation of nonparaxial accelerating fields through mirrors. I: two dimensions,” Opt. Express 22, 7124-7132 (2014).
- M.A. Bandres, M.A. Alonso, Ido Kaminer and Mordechai Segev, “Three-dimensional accelerating waves,” Opt. Express 21, 13917-13929 (2013).
- M. Eggleston, T. Godat, E. Munro, M.A. Alonso, H. Shi, M. Bhattacharya, “Ray transer matrix for a spiral phase plate,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 30, 2526-2530 (2013).
- M.A. Alonso and M.A. Bandres, “Spherical fields as nonparaxial accelerating waves,” Opt. Lett. 37, 5175-5177 (2012).
- S. Vo, K. Fuerschbach, K.P. Thompson, M.A. Alonso, and J.P. Rolland, “Airy Beams: A geometric optics perspective,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27, 2574-2582 (2010).
Fields with inhomogeneous polarization distributions
Journal articles
- K.Y. Bliokh, M.A. Alonso, D. Sugic, M. Perrin, F. Nori, and E. Brasselet, “Polarization singularities and Möbius strips in sound and water-surface waves,” Phys. Fluids 33, 077122 (2021).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas and M.A. Alonso, “Analytic treatment of nonparaxial full-Poincaré fields: singularity structure and trapping properties,” J. Opt. 23, 024005 (2021).
- K.Y. Bliokh, M.A. Alonso and M.R. Dennis, “Geometric phases in 2D and 3D polarized fields: geometrical, dynamical, and topological aspects,” Rep. Prog. Phys 82, 122401 (2019).
- A.M. Beckley, T.G. Brown, and M.A. Alonso, “Full Poincaré beams II: Partial polarization,” Opt. Express 20, 9357-9362 (2012).
- A.M. Beckley, T.G. Brown, and M.A. Alonso, “Full Poincaré beams,” Opt. Express 18, 10777-10785 (2010).
- R. Borghi, M. Santarsiero, and M.A. Alonso, “Highly focused spirally polarized beams,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1420-1431 (2005).
Conference proceedings
Other fields with interesting distributions and closed-form expressions
Journal articles
- M. Mazanov, D. Sugic, M.A. Alonso, F. Nori, and K.Y. Bliokh, “Transverse shifts and time delays of spatiotemporal vortex pulses reflected and refracted at a planar interface,” Nanophotonics 10, 20210294 (2021).
- A. Vella, H. Dourdent, L. Novotny, and M.A. Alonso, ”Birefringent masks that are optimal for generating bottle fields,” Opt. Express 25, 9318-9332 (2017).Erratum, 25, 19654 (2017).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas and M.A. Alonso, ”Complete confined bases for beam propagation in Cartesian coordinates” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 34, 1697-1702 (2017).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas and M.A. Alonso, ”Scalar and electromagnetic nonparaxial bases composed as superpositions of simple vortex fields with complex foci,” Opt. Express 25, 14856-14870 (2017).
- R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas and M.A. Alonso, ”Polynomials of Gaussians and vortex-Gaussian beams as complete, transversely confined bases,” Opt. Lett. 42, 2205-2208 (2017).