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Articles
2020

  1. Scholes S., Kara R., Pinnell J., Rodriguez-Fajardo V., and Forbes A. (2020). Structured light with digital micro-mirror devices: a guide to best practice, Optical Engineering 59(4), 041202. click here (front cover)

  2. Liu J., Nape I., Wang Q., Valles A., Wang J., and Forbes A. (2020). Multi-dimensional entanglement transport through single-mode fibre, Science Advances 6(4), eaay0837. click here (international news story, including Physics Today, Physics World, Phys.org)

  3. Sephton B., Huang Y.W., Ambrosio A., Qui C.W., Valles A., Omatsu T. Capasso F., and Forbes A. (2020). Purity and efficiency of hybrid orbital angular momentum generating metasurfaces, J. Nanophotonics 14(1), 016005. click here

  4. Toninelli E., Stellinga D., Sephton B., Forbes A., and Padgett M. (2020). Single-pixel imaging using caustic patterns, Scientific Reports 10(1), 1-6. click here

  5. Sroor H., Sephton B., Huang Y.W., Ambrosio A., Qui C.W., Valles A., Capasso F., and Forbes A. (2020). High purity OAM from a visible metasurface laser, Nature Photonics 14, 498. click here (international news story, including Physics Today, Physics World, Phys.org and many more)

  6. Zhao B., Xiao-Bo H., Rodreiguez-Fajardo V., Forbes A., Gao W., Zhi-Han Z. and Rosales-Guzman C. (2020). Determining the non-separability of vector modes with digital micromirror devices, Applied Physics Letters 116(9), 091101. click here

  7. Moreno I., del Mar Sanchez-Lopez M., Forbes A., and Hayasaki Y. (2020). Special section guest editorial: spatial light modulators: devices and applications, Optical Engineering 59(4), 041201. click here

  8. Manthalkar A., Nape I., Tabebordbar N., Rosales-Guzman C., Bhattacharya S., Forbes A., and Dudley A. (2020). All-digital Stokes polarimetry with a digital micromirror device, Optics Letters 45(8), 2319-2322. click here

  9. Bencheikh A. and Forbes A. (2020). The non-diffracting nature of truncated Hermite-Gaussian beams, JOSA A 37(11), C1-C6. click here (top 10 downloaded (June) and OSA Spotlight paper)

  10. De Oliviera M., Nape I., Pinnell J., Tabebordbar N., and Forbes A. (2020). Experimental high-dimensional quantum secret sharing with spin-orbit-structured photons, Phys. Rev. A 101(4), 042303. click here

  11. Souto Ribeiro P.H., Häffner T., Zanin G.L., Rubiano da Silva N., Medeiros de Araújo R., Soares W.C., de Assis R.J., Céleri L.C. and Forbes A. (2020). Experimental study of the generalized Jarzynski fluctuation relation using entangled photons, Phys. Rev. A 101(5), 052113. click here

  12. Shen Y., Yang X., Naidoo D., and Forbes A. Structured ray-wave vector vortex beams in multiple degrees of freedom from a laser, Optica 7(7), 820-823. click here (selected for the journal cover)

  13. Rosales-Guzman C., Xiao-Bo H., Seylem A., Moreno-Acosta P., Franke-Arnold S., Ramos Garcia R., and Forbes A. (2020). Polarisation-insensitive generation of complex vector modes from a digital micro-mirror device, Scientific Reports 10(1), 1-9. click here

  14. Scholes S. and Forbes A. (2020). Improving the beam quality factor by phase-only reshaping of structured light, Optics Letters 45(13), 3753. click here

  15. Nape I., et. al. (2020). Enhancing the modal purity of orbital angular momentum photons, APL Photonics 5(7), 070802. click here (invited paper)

  16. Scholes S., Sroor H., Ait-Ameur K., Zhan Q. and Forbes A. (2020). General design principle for structured light lasers, Optics Express28(23), 35006. click here (top 10 most downloaded)

  17. Chabou S., Bencheikh A, Pinnell J., Rodreiguez-Fajardo V. and Forbes A. (2020). Do Laguerre-Gaussian beams recover their spatial properties after all obstacles?, Appl. Phys. B 126(11), 1-12. click here

  18. Forbes A, Cherif R., Dudley A., and Dikande A. (2020). Optics in Africa: introduction, JOSA B 37(11), OIA1-OIA3. click here (guest editor, top 10 most downloaded)

  19. Pinnell J., Nape I., Sephton B., Cox M., Rodriguez-Fajardo V. and Forbes A. (2020). Modal analysis of structured light with spatial light modulators: a practical tutorial, JOSA A 37(11), C146-C160. click here (top 10 most downloaded)

  20. Otte E., Nape I., Rosales-Guzman C., Denz C., Forbes A., and Ndagano B. (2020). High-dimensional cryptography with spatial modes of light: tutorial, JOSA B 37(11), A309-A323. click here (top 10 most downloaded)

  21. Pinnell J., Chabou S., Mihoubi K., Bencheikh A., Rodriguez-Fajardo V., and Forbes A. (2020). Revealing the modal content of obstructed beams, Phys. Rev. A, 102 (3), 033524. click here

  22. Shen Y., Wang Z., Fu X., Naidoo D., and Forbes A. SU(2) Poincare Sphere: a generalized representation for multidimensional structured light, Phys. Rev. A, 102 (3), 031501. click here (rapid publication selection)

  23. Pinnell J., Nape I., De Oliviera M., Tabebordbar N., and Forbes A. (2020). Experimental demonstration of 11-dimensional 10-party quantum secret sharing, Laser & Photonics Reviews 14(9), 2000012. click here (cover selection and major international story)

  24. Mouane O., et. al., Formation of mono-dispersed carbon nanospheres by pulsed laser irradiation of HOPG, Materials Chemistry and Physics 253, 123269. click here

  25. Singh K., Tabebordbar N., Forbes A. and Dudley A. (2020). Digital Stokes polarimetry and its application to structured light: tutorial,JOSA A 37(11), C33-C44. click here (top 10 most downloaded)

  26. Tang Y., et. al. (2020). High-quality vector vortex arrays by holographic and geometric phase control, Journal of Physics D 53(46), 465101. click here

  27. Vetter C., Forbes A., and Szameit A. (2020). Tailored radially self-accelerating beams, J. Optics 22(7), 075605. click here

  28. Bornman N., Kempf A., and Forbes A. (2020). Random number generation and distribution out of thin (or thick) air, J. Optics 22(7), 075705. click here

  29. Forbes A. and Nape I. (2020). A scramble to preserve entanglement, Nature Physics 16, 1091-1092. click here (invited paper)

  30. Forbes A. (2020). Sculpturing electric currents with structured light, Nature Photonics 14, 656-657. click here (invited paper)

  31. Rodriguez-Fajardo V., Pinnell J., and Forbes A. (2020). Towards time-efficient ghost imaging, J. Mod. Opt. 67(13), 1176. click here

  32. Scholes S. and Forbes A. (2020). Improving the beam quality factor (M2) by phase-only reshaping of structured light, Opt. Lett. 45(13), 3753. click here

  33. Scholes S., Rodriguez-Fajardo V., and Forbes A. (2020). Lossless reshaping of structured light, JOSA A 37, C80-C85. click here

  34. De Oliveira M., Bornman N., and Forbes A. (2020). Holographically controlled random numbers from entangled twisted photons, Phys. Rev. A, 102 (3), 032620. click here

  35. Pinnell J., Klug A., and Forbes A. (2020). Spatial filtering of structured light, Am. J. Phys. 88(12), 1123. click here

  36. Li H., Rodriguez-Fajardo V., Chen P. and Forbes A. (2020). Spin and orbital angular momentum dynamics in counterpropagating vectorially structured light, Phys. Rev. A 102, 063533. click here

  37. Wang Z., Shen Y., Naidoo D., Fu X., and Forbes A. (2021). Astigmatic hybrid SU(2) vector vortex beams: towards versatile structures in longitudinally variant polarized optics, Opt. Express, 29 (1), 315. click here

  38. Pinnell J., Rodriguez-Fajardo V., and Forbes A. (2021). Probing the limits of orbital angular momentum generation and detection with spatial light modulators, J. Opt. 23, 015602. click here

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