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Polarized Raman spectra of piezoelectric bismuth germanate single crystal were recorded using vortex light in order to verify the predicted symmetry selection rules for Raman scattering of photons with nonzero orbital angular momentum. At…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 A. Pylypets , F. Borodavka , I. Rafalovskyi , I. Gregora , E. Buixaderas , P. Bohacek , J. Hlinka

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a fundamental optical degree of freedom that has recently motivated much exciting research in diverse fields ranging from optical communication to quantum information. We show for the first time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Xi-Wang Luo , Xingxiang Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We use astigmatic transformations to characterize two-dimensional superpositions of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) states in laser beams. We propose two methods for doing this, both relying only on astigmatic transformations, viewed as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 B. Pinheiro da Silva , D. S. Tasca , E. F. Galvão , A. Z. Khoury

We present a design to generate structurally propagation invariant light beams carrying non-integer orbital angular momentum (OAM) using Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian (HLG) modes. Different from previous techniques, the symmetry axes of our…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-25 A. M. Nugrowati , W. G. Stam , J. P. Woerdman

We study here fractional orbital angular momentum (OAM) states in electron vortex beams (EVB) from the perspective of geometric phase. We have considered the skyrmionic model of an electron, where it is depicted as a scalar electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Pratul Bandyopadhyay , Banasri Basu , Debashree Chowdhury

Manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is essential in OAM-based optical systems. Especially, OAM divider, which can convert the incoming OAM mode into one or several new smaller modes in proportion at different spatial…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum, such as Laguerre-Gaussian beams, give rise to the violation of the standard dipolar selection rules during the interaction with matter yielding, in general, an exchange of angular momentum…

To date, orbital angular momentum (OAM) and optical frequency combs (OFCs) are two distinct fields of research without any association. Herein, we generated OFCs with an OAM on each comb line by applying electro-optic phase modulation to…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-04 Jinze He , Xingyu Jia , Bingyan Wei , Guanhao Wu , Yang Li

We present a general theory of spin-to-orbital angular momentum (AM) conversion of light in focusing, scattering, and imaging optical systems. Our theory employs universal geometric transformations of nonparaxial optical fields in such…

We demonstrate the polarization of electron orbital angular momentum (OAM) in neutral atoms by integrating the Zeeman effect with attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS). Using density matrix simulations, we show that in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hongtao Hu , Sebastian Mai , Peng Peng , Andrius Baltuška , Xinhua Xie

The Shannon dimensionality of orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion can be probed by using multi-sector phase analysers. We demonstrate a spatial light modulator-based implementation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 D. Giovannini , F. M. Miatto , J. Romero , S. M. Barnett , J. P. Woerdman , M. J. Padgett

The generation of rapidly tunable Optical Vortex (OV) beams is one of the most demanding research areas of the present era as they possess Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) with additional degrees of freedom that can be exploited to enhance…

We present a stable dual-wavelength vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) with two spectral peaks separated by a few terahertz in diode-pumped Yb:CaGdAlO4 (CALGO) laser. The dual-wavelength spectrum is controlled by the pump…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yijie Shen , Yuan Meng , Xing Fu , Mali Gong

There is recurrent interest in the orbital angular momentum (OAM) conveyed by optical vortices, which are structured beams with a helically twisted wavefront. Particular significance is attached to the issue of how, in its interactions with…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-27 Kayn A. Forbes , David L. Andrews

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a method for measuring at the same time the mean and the variance of the photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution in any paraxial optical field, without passing through the acquisition…

We explore the process of orbital angular momentum (OAM) transfer from a twisted light beam to an electron in atomic ionization within the first Born approximation. The characteristics of the ejected electron are studied regardless of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 I. I. Pavlov , A. D. Chaikovskaia , D. V. Karlovets

As the traditional resources (frequency, time, space, etc.) are efficiently utilized, it becomes more and more challenging to satisfy the ever-lasting capacity-growing and users-boosting demand in wireless networks. Recently, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-23 Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Haiyue Jing , Shanghua Gao , Hailin Zhang

In the present work we have demonstrated a possibility for real-time operation by orbital an-gular momentum (OAM) of optical beams via Pockels effect in solid crystalline materials. Basing on the analysis of optical Fresnel ellipsoid…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ihor Skab , Yurij Vasylkiv , Ihor Smaga , Rostyslav Vlokh

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attractive applications in the fields of precise optical measurements and high capacity optical communications. We study the rotation of a light beam propagating in warm 87Rb atomic vapor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Shuai Shi , Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Wei Zhang , Bao-Sen Shi