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Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess an unbounded set of orthogonal modes, offering significant potential for optical communication and security. However, exploiting OAM beams in space has been hindered by the lack of…

A standard triangular aperture for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light by diffraction usually has a fixed and limited radius R. This possesses a crucial issue since for an increasing topological charge m of an OAM beam,…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-25 Dina Grace C. Banguilan , Nathaniel Hermosa

Control of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in optical fields has seen tremendous growth of late, with a myriad of tools existing for their creation and detection. What has been lacking is the ability to arbitrarily modify the OAM spectrum of…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jonathan Pinnell , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Andrew Forbes

Atmospheric interaction with light has been an area of fascination for many researchers over the last century. Environmental conditions, such as temperature and wind speed, heavily influence the complex and rapidly varying optical…

Over the past decade, optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes were shown to offer advantages in optical information acquisition. Here, we introduce a new scheme for optical ranging in which depth is estimated through the angular…

A light beam is said to be position squeezed if its position can be determined to an accuracy beyond the standard quantum limit. We identify the position and momentum observables for bright optical beams and show that position and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Magnus T. L. Hsu , Warwick P. Bowen , Nicolas Treps , Ping Koy Lam

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes

A light beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is characterized by a helical phase-front that winds around the center of the beam. These beams have unique properties that have found numerous applications. In the field of data…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-13 Julian Schulz , Georg von Freymann

The function to measure orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution of vortex light is essential for OAM applications. Although there are lots of works to measure OAM modes, it is difficult to measure the power distribution of different OAM…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), a topological degree of freedom of light, is theoretically invariant under continuous deformations; yet, its physical observability degrades precipitously in complex media, creating a fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-06 Shuailing Wang , Jingping Xu , Yaping Yang

We demonstrate experimentally a simple and easy-to-use technique aimed at measuring the complex orbital angular momentum spectrum of an arbitrary optical field making use of just polarization measurements. The technique can be applied to…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an attractive degree of freedom for funda- mentals studies in quantum mechanics. In addition, the discrete unbounded state-space of OAM has been used to enhance classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Mohammad Mirhosseini , Mehul Malik , Zhimin Shi , Robert W. Boyd

We present a formalism for experimental determination of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a paraxial optical beam-field by intertwining Barnett's formalism and Stokes parameter measurements. Using Barnett's formalism we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Anirban Debnath , Nirmal K. Viswanathan

Measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of vortex beams, including the magnitude and the sign, has great application prospects due to its theoretically unbounded and orthogonal modes. Here, the sign-distinguishable OAM measurement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Zhucheng Zhang , Jiancheng Pei , Yi-Ping Wang , Xiaoguang Wang

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…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light and matter waves is a parameter that is getting increasingly more attention over the past couple of years. Beams with a well defined OAM, the so-called vortex beams, are applied already in e.g.…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-10 Roeland Juchtmans , Jo Verbeeck

The Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an infinite-dimensional degree of freedom of light with several applications in both classical and quantum optics. However, to fully take advantage of the potential of OAM states, reliable…

Satellite-based quantum communications enable a bright future for global-scale information security. However, the spin orbital momentum of light, currently used in many mainstream quantum communication systems, only allows for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Ziqing Wang , Robert Malaney , Jonathan Green

The high-dimensional basis of orbital angular momentum (OAM) has several added and unique advantages for photonics quantum technologies compared to the polarization basis, which is only two-dimensional. However, one of the major roadblocks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Suman Karan , Martin P. Van Exter , Anand K. Jha

Using spontaneous parametric down conversion as a source of entangled photon pairs, correlations are measured between the orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a target beam (which contains an unknown object) and that in an empty reference…