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Dr. Yijie Shen

Project
Photonics of Anapoles and "Flying Doughnuts"

Short CV
Dr. Yijie Shen is currently a Senior Research Fellow of Nanophotonics & Metamaterials Group (Nikolay I. Zheludev group) in Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, also working as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow funded by Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship. He received the Ph.D. degree in optical engineering at the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and automation from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. During Mar. 2019 to Jun. 2019, he was invited as a visiting researcher in School of Physics: Structured Light Laboratory (Andrew Forbes group), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Johannesburg, South Africa, and also invited as a visiting researcher in National Laser Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS) and Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and an invited member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), specially a fellow member in the Systems and Instrumentation Group in which. He won the Wang Da-Heng Optics Award (COS, China) in 2019. He is a national first-grade computer aided designer and cartographer in China. He is a senior reviewer of journals Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, IEEE Photon. J., J. Opt., etc., who especially won the IOP and OSA Outstanding Reviewer Awards in 2020. He is also a member in the Journal of Optics Advisory Panel. He has published more than 40 papers in high-impact journals including Light: Sci. & Appl., Optica, Phys. Rev. Appl., Phys. Rev. A, Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, with over hundreds of citations.

Personal website

Joint and Selected Articles

  1. Observation of resilient propagation and free-space skyrmions in toroidal electromagnetic pulses
    R. Wang, P-Y. Bao, Z-Q. Hu, S. Shi, B-Z. Wang, N. I. Zheludev and Y. Shen
    Appl.Phys. Rev.,11, 031411 (2024) doi: 10.1063/5.0218207 - pdf
  2. 2D super-resolution metrology based on superoscillatory light
    Y. Wang, E. A. Chan, C. Rendón-Barraza, Y. Shen, E. Plum, and J. Y. Ou
    Adv. Sci., 2404607 (2024) doi: 10.1002/advs.202404607 - pdf
  3. Nondiffracting supertoroidal pulses and optical “Kármán vortex streets”
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    Nat. Communications 15, 4863 (2024) doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48927-5
  4. 3D positional metrology of a virus-like nanoparticle with topologically structured light
    Y. Wang, E. A. Chan, C. Rendón-Barraza, Y. Shen, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, J. Y. Ou, and N. I. Zheludev
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 124, 221102 (2024) doi: 10.1063/5.0207958 - pdf
  5. Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light
    Y. Shen, Q. Zhang, P. Shi, L. Du, X. Yuan and A. V Zayats
    Nat. Photonics 18 15-25 (2024) doi: 10.1038/s41566-023-01325-7
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  6. Multidimensional optical tweezers synthetized by rigid-body emulated structured light
    L. Zhu, Y. Tai, H. Li, H. Hu, X. Li, Y. Cai and Y. Shen
    Photonics Res. 11 1524-1534 (2023) doi: 10.1364/PRJ.490103
  7. Multi-dimensionally modulated optical vortex array
    Y. Tai, H. Fan, X. Ma, Y. Shen, and X. Li
    J. Opt. 25 094001 (2023). doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/acdb85
  8. Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields
    Y. Shen, Q. Zhan, L. G. Wright, D. N. Christodoulides, F. W. Wise, A. E. Willner, Z. Zhao, K.-H. Zou, M. A. Porras, A. Chong, C. Wan, K. Y. Bliokh, C.-T. Liao, C. Hernández-García, M. Murnane, M. Yessenov, A. F. Abouraddy, L. J. Wong, M. Go, S. Kumar, C. Guo, S. Fan, N. Papasimakis, N. I. Zheludev, L. Chen, W. Zhu, A. Agrawal, M. Mounaix, N. K. Fontaine, J. Carpenter, S. W. Jolly, C. Dorrer, B. Alonso, I. Lopez-Quintas, M. López-Ripa, Í. J. Sola, J. Huang, H. Zhang, Z. Ruan, A. H. Dorrah, F. Capasso, A. Forbes
    J. Opt. 25 094001(2023) doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ace4dc
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  9. Ultra-degree-of-freedom structured light for ultracapacity information carriers
    Z. Wan, H. Wang, Q. Liu, X. Fu, and Y. Shen
    ACS Photonics (2023) doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01640
  10. Multiaxial super-geometric mode laser
    J. Pan, Z. Wang, Z. Zhan, X. Fu, Y. Shen, and Q. Liu,
    Opt. Lett. 48,7, 1630-1633 (2023) doi: 10.1364/OL.485163
  11. Topological transformation and free-space transport of photonic hopfions
    Y. Shen, B. Yu, H. Wu, C. Li, Z. Zhu, and A. V. Zayats
    Adv. Photon. 5 (1), 015001 (2023); doi: 10.1117/1.AP.5.1.015001
    - journal cover
  12. Toward Arbitrary Spin-Orbit Flat Optics Via Structured Geometric Phase Gratings
    C. Li, S. Liu, B. Yu, H. Wu, C. Rosales-Guzmán, Y. Shen, P. Chen, Z. Zhu, and Y. Lu
    Laser Photonics Rev. 2200800 (2023); doi: 10.1002/lpor.202200800
    - journal cover
  13. Scalar optical hopfions
    C. Wan, Y. Shen, A. Chong, and Q. Zhan
    eLight 2, 22 (2022) doi: 10.1186/s43593-022-00030-2
    [Journal cover]
  14. Airy coherent vortices: 3D multilayer self-accelerating structured light
    J. Pan, H. Wang, Y. Shen, X. Fu, and Q. Liu
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 121, 141102 (2022) doi: 10.1063/5.0104188
    [Journal cover] [Featured article]
  15. Self-healing of structured light: a review
    Y. Shen, S. Pidishety, I. Nape, and A. Dudley
    J. Opt. 24, 103001(2022) doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac8888 - pdf
  16. Deep-learning-assisted communication capacity enhancement by non-orthogonal state recognition of structured light
    H. Wang, Z. Zhan, Y. Shen, J. Hu, X. Fu, and Q. Liu
    Opt. Express 30, 29781-29795 (2022) doi: 10.1364/OE.465318 - pdf
  17. Towards higher-dimensional structured light
    C. He, Y. Shen, and A. Forbes
    Light: Sci. & Appl. 11, 205 (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41377-022-00897-3 - pdf
  18. Observation of toroidal pulses of light
    A. Zdagkas, Y. Shen, C. McDonnell, J. Deng, G. Li, T. Ellenbogen, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nat. Photon. 16, 523–528 (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41566-022-01028-5 - pdf
    [Journal cover][News article]
  19. Nonseparable states of light: from quantum to classical
    Y. Shen and Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán
    Laser Photonics Rev. 16,2100533 (2022) doi: 10.1002/lpor.202100533
  20. Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low bit-error-rate optical communications
    Z. Wan, Y. Shen, Z. Wang, Z. Shi, Q. Liu, and X. Fu
    Light: Sci. & Appl. 11,144 (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41377-022-00834-4
  21. Multipartite classically entangled scalar beams
    Z. Wan, Y. Shen, Q. Liu, and X. Fu
    Opt. Lett. 47(8), 2052-2055 (2022) doi: 10.1364/OL.451046
  22. Conformal frequency conversion for arbitrary vectorial structured light
    H. Wu, B. Yu, Z. Zhu, W. Gao, D. Ding, Z. Zhou, X. Hu, C. Rosales-Guzmán, Y. Shen, and B. Shi
    Optica 9(2), 187-196 (2022) doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.444685
  23. Generation of optical skyrmions with tunable topological textures
    Y. Shen, E. C. Martinez, and C. Rosales-Guzman
    ACS Photonics 9(1), 296–303 (2022)doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01703
    [Journal cover]
  24. Shrinking multiplexed orbital angular momentum to the nanoscale
    C. He, Y. Shen, A. Forbes and M. J. Booth
    Light: Sci. & Appl. 10, 220 (2021) doi: 10.1038/s41377-021-00668-6
  25. Rays, waves, SU(2) symmetry and geometry: toolkits for structured light
    Y. Shen
    J. Opt. 23, 124004 (2021) doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac3676
  26. Structural stability of open vortex beams
    R. Zeng, Q. Zhao, Y. Shen, Y. Liu, and Y. Yan
    Appl. Phys. Lett., 119, 171105 (2021) doi: 10.1063/5.0062967
  27. Supertoroidal light pulses as electromagnetic skyrmions propagating in free space
    Y. Shen, Y. Hou, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    Nat. Comm. 12, 5891 (2021) doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26037-w
  28. Deep-learning based recognition of multi-singularity structured light
    H. Wang, X. Yang, Z. Liu, J. Pan, Y. Meng, Z. Shi, Z. Wan, H. Zhang, Y. Shen, X. Fu and Q. Liu
    Nanophotonics (2021)doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0489 - pdf

    [Invited Article, Special Issue of Photonic Angular Momentum]
  29. Advances of Yb:CALGO Laser Crystals
    H. Wang, J. Pan, Y. Meng, Q. Liu, Y. Shen
    Crystals 11 (9), 1131 (2021) doi: 10.3390/cryst11091131

    [Invited Review]
  30. Topological bimeronic beams
    Y. Shen
    Opt. Lett. 46 (15), 3737-3740 (2021) doi: 10.1364/OL.431122 - pdf

    [Editor's Pick]
  31. To unify azimuthally traveling-wave and standing-wave structured light by ray-wave duality
    Z. Wang, Y. Shen, Q. Liu and X. Fu
    J. Opt. 23, 115604 (2021) doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ac160b
  32. Measures of space-time nonseparability of electromagnetic pulses
    Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013236 (2021) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013236 - pdf
  33. Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light
    Y. Shen, I. Nape, X. Yang, X. Fu, M. Gong, D. Naidoo, and A. Forbes
    Light: Sci. & Appl. 10, 50 (2021)doi: 10.1038/s41377-021-00493-x - pdf
    [Journal cover]
  34. Astigmatic hybrid SU(2) vector vortex beams: towards versatile structures in longitudinally variant polarized optics
    Z. Wang, Y. Shen, D. Naidoo, X. Fu, and A. Forbes
    Opt. Express 29 (1), 315-329 (2021) doi: 10.1364/OE.414674 - pdf
  35. Structured ray-wave vector vortex beams in multiple degrees of freedom from a laser: erratum
    Y. Shen, X. Yang, D. Naidoo, X. Fu and A. Forbes
    Optica 7 (12), 1705-1705 (2020) doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.414397 - pdf
  36. Index-Tunable Structured-Light Beams from a Laser with an Intracavity Astigmatic Mode Converter
    J. Pan, Y. Shen, Z. Wan, X. Fu, H. Zhang and Q. Liu
    Phys. Rev. Appl. 14, 044048 (2020) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.044048 - pdf
  37. Digitally tailoring arbitrary structured light of generalized ray-wave duality
    Z. Wan, Z. Wang, X. Yang, Y. Shen and X. Fu
    Opt. Express 28 (21), 31043-31056 (2020) doi: 10.1364/OE.400587 - pdf
  38. Structured ray-wave vector vortex beam in multiple degrees of freedom from a laser
    Y. Shen, X. Yang, D. Naidoo, X. Fu, and A. Forbes
    Optica 7 (7) 820-831 (2020) doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.382994 - pdf

    Optica on the cover paper
  39. SU(2) Poincaré Sphere: A generalized representation for multi-dimensional structured light
    Y. Shen, Z. Wang, X. Fu, D. Naidoo, and A. Forbes
    Phys. Rev. A 102, 031501(R) (2020) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.031501 - pdf

Joint and Selected Conference Contributions

  1. Experimental realization of the slepian-pollak tomographic imaging: super-resolution for limited-size objects
    T. Chang, G. Adamo, J. K. So, E. A. Chan, N. Papasimakis, Y. Shen and N. I. Zheludev
    18th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials’2024), Crete, Greece, 9 – 14 Sept 2024
  2. (invited) Supertoroidal electrodynamics
    N. Papasimakis, Y. Shen, N. I. Zheludev
    ICEAA-IEEE APWC 2023, Venice, Italy, 9 - 13 Oct 2023
  3. Supertoroidal non-radiating configuration
    R. Kumar, Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis, N. I. Zheludev
    17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials’2023), Crete, Greece, 11–16 Sept 2023
  4. (invited) Diffraction-free propagating skyrmions: optical von kármán vortex streets
    Y. Shen
    International Symposium on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics (ISPN 2023), Singapore, 11-14 July 2023
  5. (invited) Toroidal skyrmions of free space-time
    Y. Shen
    The 44th PIERS (PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium), Prague, Czech, 3-6 July, 2023
  6. (poster)State tomography of complex electromagnetic pulses
    L. Vignjevic, Y. Shen, S. Pidishety, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023, Munich, Germany, 26 - 30 June 2023
  7. Super-resolution multipole decomposition tomographic microscopy
    T. Chang, J. K. So, E. A. Chan, G. Adamo, N. Papasimakis, Y. Shen, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023, Munich, Germany, 26 - 30 June 2023
  8. Structured light analogy of quantum squeezed states
    Z. Wang, Z. Zhan, A. Vetlugin, J.-Y. Ou, Q. Liu, Y. Shen and X. Fu
    CLEO 2023, San Jose, USA, 7-12 May 2023
  9. (invited)Topology, skyrmions, and superoscillation of structured light
    Y. Shen
    SPIE Photonics West, Complex Light and Optical Forces XVII, San Francisco, California, USA, 28 Jan - 2 Feb , 2023
  10. Optical skyrmions with tunable topological textures
    Y. Shen
    Laser Congress, Optica, Barcelona, Spain, 11-15 Dec 2022
  11. Airy coherent vortices towards 3D self-accelerating structured light
    Y. Shen, J. Pan, H. Wang, Q. Liu
    Laser Congress, Optica, Barcelona, Spain, 11-15 Dec 2022
  12. Physics-informed neural network for multi-singularity structured light recognition
    H. Wang, X. Yang, X. Fu, Q. Liu, Y. Shen
    Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2022 (FIO, LS), JW4B.18, Technical Digest Series, Optica, 17 - 20 Oct 2022
  13. Propagating superoscillatory electromagnetic skyrmions
    Y. Shen, N. Papsimakis, N. I. Zheludev
    IOP Photon 2022, Nottingham, UK, 30 Aug – 2 Sept 2022
  14. Propagating optical skyrmions with space-time superoscillatory resolution
    N.Papasimakis, Y. Shen, and N. I. Zheludev
    Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1 - 4 Aug 2022
  15. Space-time superoscillations in structured light pulses
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis, M. R. Dennis, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, USA, 15-20 May 2022
  16. Diffraction-free propagating electromagnetic skyrmions
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, USA, 15-20 May 2022
  17. Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards higher-dimensional optical communications
    Z. Wan, Y. Shen, X. Fu
    CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, USA, 15-20 May 2022
  18. Galaxy waves: 3D inhomogeneous auto-accelerating beams
    J. Pan, Y. Shen, H. Wang, Q. Liu
    CLEO 2022, San Jose, CA, USA, 15-20 May 2022
  19. Supertoroidal skyrmions and space-time superoscillation of light
    Y. Shen, N.Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe 2022, Strasbourg, France, 3 - 7 April 2022
  20. (invited) Supertoroidal skyrmionic dynamics and space-time superoscillation of light
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis, N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe 2022, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 Apr 2022
  21. Coordinate nanometrology of coronavirus-like nanoparticle with topologically structured light
    Y. Wang, Y. Shen ,K. F. MacDonald, E. Plum, J. Y. Ou, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2022, Seefeld, Austria, 28-31 Mar 2022
  22. Superoscillatory Space-Time Nonseparable Optical Pulses
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis, M. R. Dennis, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2022, Seefeld, Austria, 28-31 Mar 2022
  23. Propagating Electromagnetic Skyrmions
    Y. Shen, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    Nanometa 2022, Seefeld, Austria, 28-31 Mar 2022
  24. (invited) Structured light towards multiple degrees of freedom and high dimensions
    Y. Shen
    Digital Singular Optics (DSO 2021), Yalta, Virtual Conference, 6 - 10 Sep 2021
  25. Supertoroidal Skyrmionic Light Pulses
    Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    ICEAA-IEEE APWC-USNC URSI RSM 2021, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 9-13, 2021
  26. (invited) Classically “entangled” toroidal pulses
    N. Papasimakis, Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, S. Pidishety and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2021, Virtual Conference, 1 - 5 Aug 2021
  27. Digitally controlled ray-wave geometric beams as higher-dimensional information carriers
    Z. Wan, Z. Wang, Y. Shen, and X. Fu
    SPIE’s Laser Beam Shaping (LBS), Virtual conference, 1 - 5 Aug 2021
  28. (invited) Structured light towards multiple degrees of freedom and high dimensions
    Y. Shen
    SPIE’s Laser Beam Shaping (LBS), Virtual conference, 1 - 5 Aug 2021
  29. Supertoroidal Skyrmionic Light Pulses
    Y. Shen, Y. Hou, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021 Virtual Meeting, 21 - 25 June 2021
  30. Intracavity-Mode-Conversion Structured-Light Laser
    J. Pan, Y. Shen , H. Wang, Z. Wang, Z. Wan, X. Fu, H. Zhang, and Q. Liu
    CLEO 2021 Virtual Conference, 9 - 14 May 2021
  31. Skyrmionic Supertoroidal Light Pulses
    Y. Shen, Y. Hou, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2021 Virtual Conference, 9 - 14 May 2021
  32. Clasically entangled vectorial structured light towards multiple degrees of freedom and higher dimensions
    Y. Shen, Z. Wang, X.Yang, I. Nape, D. Naidoo, X. Fu and A. Forbes
    CLEO 2021 Virtual Conference, 9 - 14 May 2021
  33. (Poster) State Tomography of Space-Time “Entangled” Ultrafast Optical Pulses
    Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, S. Pidishety, N. Papasimakis, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2021 Virtual Conference, 9 - 14 May 2021
  34. Observation of Toroidal Light Pulses
    A. Zdagkas, Y. Shen(1), S. Pidishety, C. McDonnell, J. Deng, G. Li, N. Papasimakis T. Ellenbogen and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO 2021 Virtual Conference, 9 - 14 May 2021
  35. (invited) Structured light towards multiple degrees of freedom and high dimensions
    Y. Shen
    OFS 2021, Hangzhou, China, Virtual conference, 24-26 April 2021
  36. (invited) Structured Light towards Multiple Degrees of Freedom and High Dimensions
    Y. Shen
    Optical Young Scientist Summit (YOSS) 2020, 4-7 Dec 2020, Ningbo, China
  37. Space-Time Non-Separability of Complex Electromagnetic Fields Generated by Metasurfaces
    Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2020 (Virtual Conference), 28 Sept – 01 Oct 2020
  38. Quantum-analogous measures for space-time non-separable light
    Y. Shen, A. Zdagkas, N. Papasimakis and N. I. Zheludev
    Photon 2020 (virtual conference), 1-4 Sep 2020

 

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