Compact, lightweight, AI-assisted hybrid high-dimensional photonic laser field manipulation tailors multiple degrees-of-freedom on demand

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085009

"step-by-step manipulation involving bulky/ complex components overcome using hybrid simultaneous manipulation over wave vector, initial phase, spatial mode, amplitude, orbital angular momentum, spin angular momentum, reaching 288-imensional laser field... phase-only transmittance allows easy integration using polymeric liquid crystals, metasurfaces, other anisotropic modulation dielectrics... 0.0036 average mean square error... classical/ quantum optics, high-dimensional laser field technologies"

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