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Spin and angular momenta of light are important degrees of freedom in nanophotonics which control light propagation, optical forces and information encoding. Typically, optical angular momentum is generated using q-plates or spatial light…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-28 Alessandro Ciattoni , Claudio Conti , Anatoly Zayats , Andrea Marini

Today, it is well known that light possesses a linear momentum which is along the propagation direction. Besides, scientists also discovered that light can possess an angular momentum (AM), a spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Andy Chong , Chenhao Wan , Jian Chen , Qiwen Zhan

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light and optical vortices are closely related concepts that are often conflated. The conserved OAM arises fundamentally from the SO(3) rotational symmetry of spacetime, while the concept of vortices…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-06 Rui-Feng Liang , L. Yang

In this letter, we experimentally demonstrate the evolution of the optical vortex beams of different topological charges propagating in engineered nano-colloidal suspension of negative polarizability with saturable nonlinearities. Due to…

Spin-orbital coupling and interaction as intrinsic light fields characteristics have been extensively studied. Previous studies involve the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried by circular polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jian Chen , Lihua Yu , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan

We report the first demonstration of a direct interaction between the extraordinary transverse spin angular momentum in evanescent waves and the intrinsic orbital angular momentum in optical vortex beams. By tapping the evanescent wave of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zengkai Shao , Jiangbo Zhu , Yujie Chen , Yanfeng Zhang , Siyuan Yu

The problem of light waves interaction with charged particles becomes more and more complex starting with the case of plane waves, where the analytical solution is well known, to more natural, though more complicated situations which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Egor Dmitriev , Philipp Korneev

Optical vortex, a light beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been realized in experiments, and its interactions with magnets show abundant physical characteristics and great application potentials. In this work, we propose that…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. H. Guan , Y. Liu , Z. P. Hou , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum were generated experimentally [{\it Optica} {\bf 6}, 1547 (2019); {\it Nat. Photon.} {\bf 14}, 350 (2020)]. However, an accurate…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

We study the interaction of laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) with structural asymmetry quantum dot molecules characterized by four energy levels. We demonstrate how the inter-dot tunneling endows exchange of optical…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

Light intensity control of the orbital angular momentum of the fundamental beam in a quadratic nonlinear process is theoretically and numerically presented. In particular we analyzed a seeded second harmonic generation process in presence…

Orbital angular momentum is an important concept in optics, thus numerous researches explore the principles and applications of light beams with orbital angular momentum. This type of light beam is also called vortex beam, whose inherent…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Charles Chen

An optical vortex (OV) is a beam with spiral wave front and screw phase dislocation. This kind of beams is attracting rising interest in various fields. Here we theoretically proposed and experimentally realized a novel but easy approach to…

Study of photonic spin-orbital interactions, which involves control of the propagation and spatial distributions of light with the polarization of electromagnetic fields, is not only important at the fundamental level but also has…

We introduce a new method to generate and tune the optical orbital angular momentum of a focused Gaussian beam passing through the optical superlattice under the electro-optic effect. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) arises from the curl…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jie Wang , Jianhong Shi , Linghao Tian , Xianfeng Chen

The large number of available orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of photons provides a unique resource for many important applications in quantum information and optical communications. However, conventional OAM switching devices usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We explore whether localized surface plasmon polariton modes can transfer heat between molecules placed in the hot spot of a nanoplasmonic cavity through optomechanical interaction with the molecular vibrations. We demonstrate that external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 S. Mahmoud Ashrafi , R. Malekfar , A. R. Bahrampour , Johannes Feist

Orbital angular momentum of light has recently been recognized as a new degree of freedom to encode information in quantum communication using light pulses. Methods to extract this information include reversing the process by which such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 R. M. Kerber , J. M. Fitzgerald , D. E. Reiter , S. S. Oh , O. Hess

The synergy of judiciously engineered nanostructures and complex topology of light creates unprecedented opportunities for tailoring light-matter interactions on the nanoscale. Electromagnetic waves can carry multiple units of angular…