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When light is transmitted through optically inhomogeneous and anisotropic media the spatial distribution of light can be modified according to its input polarization state. A complete analysis of this process, based on the paraxial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Gabriel F. Calvo , Antonio Picón

We consider the transformation for the point rotation frames with the angle, spatial coordinate along the axis of rotation and time as variables. The problem arises when light, propagating through 3-fold electrooptical crystal, is modulated…

Optics · Physics 2007-10-24 Boris V. Gisin

Recent theoretical and experimental developments in the field of electron vortex beam physics have raised questions on what exactly this novelty in the field of electron microscopy (and other fields, such as particle physics) really…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ruben Van Boxem , Bart Partoens , Jo Verbeeck

Stated simply the paradox is as follows: it is clear that the orbital angular momentum of a light beam in its direction of propagation is an intrinsic quantity, and therefore has the same value everywhere in the beam. How then can a…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-01 Stephen M. Barnett , Fiona C. Speirits , Mohamed Babiker

Optical vortices arise as phase singularities of the light fields and are of central interest in modern optical physics. In this paper, some existence theorems are established for stationary vortex wave solutions of a general class of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Yisong Yang , Ruifeng Zhang

We consider recently introduced self-focusing fields that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) [Opt. Lett. $\textbf{46}$, 2384$-$2387 (2021)] and in particular, their propagation properties through a turbulent ocean. We show that this type…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-12 Meilan Luo , Matias Koivurova , Marco Ornigotti , Chaoliang Ding

Spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs) are wavepackets that carry transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM), whose proper quantification has been the subject of recent debate. In this work, we introduce a simplified mechanical model of STVPs,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sophie Vo , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Miguel A. Alonso

The nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) associated with spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) pulses has been the subject of recent debate. We demonstrate that the approaches to tOAM presented in several recent papers…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-25 N. Tripathi , S. W. Hancock , H. M. Milchberg

We identify an acoustic process in which the conversion of angular momentum between its spin and orbital form takes place. The interaction between an evanescent wave propagating at the interface of two immiscible fluids and an isolated…

The creation and manipulation of photonic skyrmions provide a novel degree of freedom for light-matter interactions, optical communication and nanometrology. Since the localized vortex within skyrmions arises from the twist and curl of the…

The quantum processes involved in the interaction of matter with, separately, an electron vortex(EV) and an optical vortex (OV) are described, with matter modelled in terms of a neutral two particle atomic system, allowing for both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. M. Lloyd , M. Babiker , J. Yuan

Waves of various types carry momentum, which is associated with their propagation direction, i.e., the phase gradient. The circulation of the wave momentum density gives rise to orbital angular momentum (AM). Additionally, for waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However, the spatio-temporal coherence of the light source has been…

In hydrodynamics, vortex generation upon the transition from smooth laminar flows to turbulence is generally accompanied by increased dissipation. However, plane vortices can provide transport barriers and decrease losses, as it happens in…

We show that the transfer of the plane wave spectrum of the pump beam to the fourth-order transverse spatial correlation function of the two-photon field generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion leads to the conservation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. P. Walborn , A. N. de Oliveira , R. S. Thebaldi , C. H. Monken

Optical fields with orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact with medium have many remarkable properties with its unique azimuthal phase, showing many potential applications in high capacity information processing, high precision measurement…

A ray-optics model is proposed to describe the vector beam transformation in a strongly focusing optical system. In contrast to usual approaches basing on the focused field distribution near the focal plane, we employ the transformed beam…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Ya. Bekshaev

Energy, momentum, and angular momentum are fundamental properties tied to the symmetries of space and time, with photons and other elementary particles acting as carriers of these quantities. In most optical and optoelectronic devices,…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ilya Deriy , Danil Kornovan , Mihail Petrov , Andrey Bogdanov

The physics of coherent beams of photons carrying axial orbital angular momentum (OAM) is well understood and such beams, sometimes known as vortex beams, have found applications in optics and microscopy. Recently electron beams carrying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Gregg M. Gallatin , Ben McMorran

We study spatially localized optical vortices created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light with a phase dislocation in a biased photorefractive crystal. In a contrast to the decay of coherent self-trapped vortex beams due to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristian Motzek , Yuri S. Kivshar , Ming-Feng Shih , Grover A. Swartzlander