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Classical structured light with controlled polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of electromagnetic waves has varied applications in optical trapping, bio-sensing, optical communications and quantum simulations. The classical…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-05 Li-Ping Yang , Zubin Jacob

There is recent interest in the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for creating multiple channels within free-space optical communication systems. One limiting issue is that, for a given beam size at the transmitter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Miles J. Padgett , Filippo M. Miatto , Martin Lavery , Anton Zeilinger , Robert W. Boyd

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) entangled photon pairs with narrow bandwidths play a crucial role in the interaction of light and quantum states of matter. In this article, we demonstrate an approach for generating OAM entangled photon pairs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Jiaheng Ma , Chengyuan Wang , Bingbing Li , Yun Chen , Ye Yang , Jinwen Wang , Xin Yang , Shuwei Qiu , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Semiconductor lasers capable of generating a vortex beam with a specific orbital angular momentum (OAM) order are highly attractive for applications ranging from nanoparticle manipulation, imaging and microscopy to fibre and quantum…

The optical "spin-orbit" coupling occurring in a suitably patterned nonuniform birefringent plate known as `q-plate' allows entangling the polarization of a single photon with its orbital angular momentum (OAM). This process, in turn, can…

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light possesses in addition to its usual helicity ($s=\pm \hbar$, depending on its circular polarization) an orbital angular momentum $l$. This means that in principle one can transfer more than a single…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, associated with a helical structure of the wavefunction, has a great potential for quantum photonics, as it allows attaching a higher dimensional quantum space to each photon. Hitherto, however,…

In this paper, different generations of mobile communication have been concisely mentioned. The need for advanced antenna systems capable of sending and receiving massive data is felt in the fifth generation of mobile communication. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Seyed Ali Khorasani

The plane wave based wireless communications have becoming more and more matured, along with the well utilization of the traditional resources such as time and frequency. To further increase the capacity for rapidly increasing capacity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Haiyue Jing , Wenchi Cheng , Xiang-Gen Xia , Hailin Zhang

In this work, we explore the feasibility of performing satellite-to-Earth quantum key distribution (QKD) using the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. Due to the fragility of OAM states the conventional wisdom is that turbulence would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Ziqing Wang , Robert Malaney , Benjamin Burnett

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode multiplexing has the potential to achieve high spectrum-efficiency communications at the same time and frequency by using orthogonal mode resource. However, the vortex wave hollow divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruirui Chen , Wenchi Cheng , Jinyang Lin , Liping Liang

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) modes are an important resource used in various branches of quantum science and technology due to their unique helical structure and countably infinite basis. Generating light that simultaneously carries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 D. Scharwald , L. Gehse , P. R. Sharapova

We propose an effective scheme for the generation of intense coherent extreme ultraviolet light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). The light is produced by a high-gain harmonic-generation free-electron laser (FEL), seeded using…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-23 Primož Rebernik Ribič , David Gauthier , Giovanni De Ninno

Light with orbital angular momentum (OAM), or twisted light, is widely investigated in the fields of optical communications, quantum information science and nonlinear optics by harnessing its unbounded dimension. For light-matter…

Laser beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide an additional degree of freedom and have found wide applications ranging from optical communications and optical manipulation to quantum information. The efficient generation and…

It has been known for a century that electromagnetic fields can transport not only energy and linear momentum but also angular momentum. However, it was not until twenty years ago, with the discovery in laser optics of experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Bo Thidé , Fabrizio Tamburini , Elettra Mari , Filippo Romanato , Cesare Barbieri

The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) technique provides a new degree of freedom for information transmissions in millimeter wave communications. Considering the spatial distribution characteristics of OAM beams, a new OAM spatial modulation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Xiaohu Ge , Ran Zi , Xusheng Xiong , Qiang Li , Liang Wang

Currently proposed architectures for long-distance quantum communication rely on networks of quantum processors connected by optical communications channels [1,2]. The key resource for such networks is the entanglement of matter-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D Kielpinski , JF Corney , HM Wiseman