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Articles
2026

  1. Singh, S., & Forbes, A. (2026). Progress in structured light with nonlinear optics. Prog. Electromagn. Res, 185, 1-16. click here

  2. Guo, Z., Peters, C., Mata-Cervera, N., Vetlugin, A. N., Guo, R., Zhang, P., ... & Shen, Y. (2026). Topological robustness of classical and quantum optical skyrmions in atmospheric turbulence. Nature Communications, 17(1), 2085. click here

  3. Pires, D. G., Cocotos, V., Peters, C., Litchinitser, N. M., & Forbes, A. (2026). Particle-like topologies of light in turbulent complex media. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19949. click here

  4. Pearce, E., Nothlawala, F., Forbes, A., & Padgett, M. J. (2026). Quantum imaging with correlated photon pairs. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 6(1), 17. click here

  5. Permaul, T., Forbes, A., & Konrad, T. (2026). Quantum optical formulation of difference-frequency generation and optimal cloning of structured light. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 43(3), 613-619. click here

  6. Forbes, A. (2026). A vision for the future of APL Photonics. APL Photonics, 11(3). click here

  7. Nothlawala, F., Sephton, B., Ornelas, P., Koni, M., Piccirillo, B., Feng, L., ... & Forbes, A. (2026). Remote engineering of particle-like topologies to visualise entanglement dynamics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10491. click here

  8. Ornelas, P., Kleine, T., de Oliveira, A. G., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2026). Reconfigurable circuit for mode tunable topological quantum structured light. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17716. click here

  9. Jiang, W., Cheng, M., Guo, L., & Forbes, A. (2026). Spatially-resolved atmospheric turbulence sensing with two-dimensional orbital angular momentum spectroscopy. Communications Physics, 9(1), 159. click here

  10. Gao, H., Wang, C., Zhou, Y., Zhang, S., Chen, Y., Wang, J., ... & Li, F. (2026). A decoherence resilient quantum memory for topological quantum skyrmions. click here

  11. Forbes, A., Ren, H., Omatsu, T., Shen, Y., & Chen, L. (2026). Introduction to the special issue on Structured Light: From Nanophotonics to Quantum. Photonics Research, 14(4), SLFN1-SLFN3. click here

  12. Malik, M., Kues, M., Ikuta, T., Takesue, H., Bajoni, D., Moss, D. J., ... & McCutcheon, W. (2026). High-dimensional quantum photonics: Roadmap. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.06528. click here

  13. Li, C., Liu, C., Peters, C., Yu, H., Maier, S. A., Forbes, A., & Ren, H. (2026). Disordered mosaic metasurfaces with scalable functional density. Nature Communications. click here

  14. Dekkers, K., Ruget, A., Nothlawala, F., Henry, S., Scholes, S., Padgett, M., ... & Leach, J. (2026). Orthogonalised Self-Guided Quantum Tomography: Insights from Single-Pixel Imaging. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08057. click here

  15. Peters, C., Mata-Cervera, N., Ornelas, P., Warmbier, R., Shen, Y., & Forbes, A. (2026). Extracting topological features of skyrmionic light: a tutorial. Advanced Photonics, 8(2), 023001-023001. click here

  16. Zeng, X., Wang, J., Chen, Y., Liu, G., Guo, Z., Zhou, Y., ... & Gao, H. (2026). Optical hopfions with arbitrary two winding numbers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21424. click here

  17. Nothlawala, F., Dekkers, K., Mahdavifar, M., Leach, J., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2026). Orbital angular momentum of entangled photons as a probe for relativistic effects. Physical Review A, 113(5), 052609. click here

  18. Balasubramaniam, G. M., Allam, S. R., Anand, V., Ansari, M. H., Arockiaraj, F. G., Arnon, S., ... & Zhou, H. (2026). Roadmap on singular optics and its applications. Applied Physics B, 132(5), 58. click here

  19. Naidoo, P., & Forbes, A. (2026). Metasurfaces forge new paths in quantum spaces. Opto-Electronic Advances, 9(6), 260118-1. click here

  20. Everts, K., Peters, C., & Forbes, A. (2026). Towards digital phantoms: emulating scattering with a spatial light modulator. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.11918. click here

  21. Ornelas, P., Modak, N., Korichi, O., Nape, I., Forbes, A., & Fickler, R. (2026). Tunable spatio-spectral Target Skyrmions and topological multiplexing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14441. click here

  22. Koni, M., Kassim, S., Obando, P. C., Gounden, N., Ali, M., & Nape, I. (2026). Towards reconstructing quantum structured light on a quantum computer. Physical Review A, 113(5), 052601. click here

  23. Gounden, N., Nothlawala, F., Obando, P. C., Konrad, T., Forbes, A., & Nape, I. (2026). Unveiling the link between quantum ghost imaging and Grover’s quantum searching algorithm. APL Quantum, 3(2). click here

  24. Cao, Y., Kumar, R. N., Bezuidenhout, H., Cheng, M., Guo, L., & Forbes, A. (2026). Fractional skyrmions by fractional orbital angular momentum. Physical Review A, 113(6), 063537. click here

  25. Zhou, X., Chan, J. Y. E., Chang, C. T., Liu, Z., Wang, H., Forbes, A., ... & Yang, J. K. (2026). Encoding orbital angular momentum of light in space with optical catastrophes. Nature Communications. click here

  26. Mahdavifar, M., Singh, S., Kumar, S., Dudley, A., Sephton, B., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2026). Correction-free robust cryptography with orbital angular momentum by nonlinear detection. Physical Review Applied, 26(1), 014058. click here

  27. Chen, T., Everts, K., Forbes, A., & Ma, Y. (2026). Imprinting topology on thermal light. arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13542. click here

  28. Kleine, T., Ornelas, P., Peters, C., Guo, Z., Sephton, B., Nape, I., ... & Forbes, A. (2026). Topological robustness of orbital angular momentum entanglement in stochastic channels. Physical Review Letters, 137(5), 050602. click here

  29. Gounden, N., Ornelas, P., Nape, I., & Forbes, A. (2026). Generating quantum orbital angular momentum combs using azimuthal binary phase gratings. Optics Express, 34(16), 29974-29986. click here

  30. Peters, C., Hakobyan, V., Drozdov, A., Brasselet, E., Cox, M., & Forbes, A. (2026). Topological robustness of optical skyrmions through a real-world free-space link. Science Advances, 12(33), eaee2671. click here

  31. Fu, S., Lu, R., Zhou, Z., Han, Z., Wang, X., Bai, Y., ... & Gao, C. (2026). Orbital angular momentum tailoring toward high-dimensional photonics. Photonics Insights, 5(3), R10-R10. click here

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