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We consider the paraxial propagation of nondiffracting singular beams inside natural biaxial and biaxially-induced birefringent media in vicinity of one of the optical axes in terms of eigenmode vortex-beams, whose angular momentum does not…

We investigate the problem of shaping radially symmetric annular beams into desired intensity patterns along the optical axis. Within the Fresnel approximation, we show that this problem can be expressed in a variational form equivalent to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 John A. Gemmer , Shankar C. Venkataramani , Charles G. Durfee , Jerome V. Moloney

We report experimental observation and theoretical explanation of novel propagation regimes for optical beams in an artificial nonlinear material with outstanding photorefractive properties. Nondiffractive beams, which keep their shapes…

Within the expansive domain of optical sciences, achieving the precise characterization of light beams stands as a fundamental pursuit, pivotal for various applications, including telecommunications and imaging technologies. This study…

We developed a reconstruction method for the density matrix and Wigner function of electron beams through analysis of the Airy pattern intensity profile. The density matrix in a transmission electron microscope object plane was calculated…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-10 Shuhei Hatanaka , Jun Yamasaki

We present the first experimental characterization of the azimuthal Wigner distribution of a photon. Our protocol fully characterizes the transverse structure of a photon in conjugate bases of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and azimuthal…

By using the complex angular momentum method, we provide a semiclassical analysis of electron scattering by a magnetic vortex of Aharonov-Bohm-type. Regge poles of the $S$-matrix are associated with surface waves orbiting around the vortex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci

The formation of high-order Bessel beams by a passive acoustic device consisting of an Archimedes' spiral diffraction grating is theoretically, numerically and experimentally reported in this work. These beams are propagation-invariant…

We describe an optical beam converter for an efficient transformation of Gaussian femtosecond laser beams to single- or double-charge vortex beams showing no spatial or topological charge dispersion. The device achieves a conversion…

We propose a four-level cascade-type atomic system in which two reverse four-wave mixing (FWM) processes can coexist via optical transitions in distinct pathways. This enables the generation of high- or low-frequency vortex beams on demand…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yueqian Li , Yan Zhang

A method to generate the optical vortex beam with arbitrary superposition of different orders of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on a photonic chip is proposed. The distributed Fourier holographic gratings are proposed to convert the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Aiping Liu , Chang-Ling Zou , Xifeng Ren , Wen He , Mengze Wu , Guangcan Guo , Qin Wang

The motion of noncircular two-dimensional vortices is shown to depend on a form of coupling between vortex ellipticity and the gradient of fluid density. The approach is based on the perspective that an elliptic vortex can be described as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jasmine M. Andersen , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk

The concept of weighted asymmetries is revisited for semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. We consider the cross section in Fourier space, conjugate to the outgoing hadron's transverse momentum, where convolutions of transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel Boer , Leonard Gamberg , Bernhard Musch , Alexei Prokudin

We present a method for the realization of radially and azimuthally polarized nonparaxial Bessel beams in a rigorous but simple manner. This result is achieved by using the concept of Hertz vector potential to generate exact vector…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

Due to their unique ability to maintain an intensity distribution upon propagation, non-diffracting light fields are used extensively in various areas of science, including optical tweezers, nonlinear optics and quantum optics, in…

In this work we discuss how the classical orbital angular momentum (OAM) and topological charge (TC) of optical beams with arbitrary spatial phase profiles are related to the local winding density. An analysis for optical vortices (OV) with…

In recent years, optical vortex beams possessing orbital angular momentum have caught much attention due to their potential for high capacity optical communications. This capability arises from the unbounded topological charges of orbital…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Shumei Chen , Yuan Cai , Guixin Li , Shuang Zhang , Kok Wai Cheah

We originally demonstrate the vortex beams with patterns of closed polygons [namely polygonal vortex beams (PVBs)] generated by a quasi-frequency-degenerate (QFD) Yb:CALGO laser resonator with astigmatic transformation. The PVBs with…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-12 Yijie Shen , Zhensong Wan , Yuan Meng , Xing Fu , Mali Gong

The diagonalization of Hermitian supermatrices is studied. Such a change of coordinates is inevitable to find certain structures in random matrix theory. However it still poses serious problems since up to now the calculation of all…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Mario Kieburg

Vortex $\gamma$ photons with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) possess a wealth of applications in various fields, e.g.-strong-laser physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics-yet their generation remains unsettled.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 Mamutjan Ababekri , Ren-Tong Guo , Feng Wan , B. Qiao , Zhongpeng Li , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Weimin Zhou , Yuqiu Gu , Jian-Xing Li