Structured light beams offer promising properties for a variety of applications
but the generation of broadband structured light remains a challenge. New opportunities are emerging in the terahertz frequency range owing to recent progress in light-driven ultrafast vectorial currents through spatially patterning spintronic and optoelectronic systems.
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