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Helical gratings (HGs) have an achievement of flexible mode conversion for fibre guided orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. Sampled reflection HGs can realise the generation and conversion of OAM mode with comb spectra. They can be used…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-04 Yancheng Ma , Liang Fang , Guoan Wu

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…

Vector vortex beams have played a fundamental role in the better understanding of coherence and polarization. They are described by spatially inhomogeneous polarization states, which present a rich optical mode structure that has attracted…

Plasmonic vortices (PV) excited by a highly focused radially polarized optical vortex (RPOV) beam on a metal surface are investigated experimentally and theoretically. The proposed method reveals a direct phase singularity and orbital…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-11 X. -C. Yuan , Z. J. Hu , G. H. Yuan , Z. Shen

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields, especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the severely congested spectrum of commercial communication systems. Beams…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Rui Chen , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

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

Structured light beams, such as optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum, are essential for applications ranging from low-power optical communications to high-intensity laser-matter interactions. However, scaling their power and…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-29 Hossein Fathi , Rafael F. Barros , Regina Gumenyuk

We theoretically study the generation of orbital angular momentum(OAM) based on four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a diamond-type inhomogeneously broadened $^{85}$Rb atomic system. We use density matrix formalism at weak probe limit to…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-10 Nawaz Sarif Mallick , Tarak Nath Dey

We set forth a method to analyze the orbital angular momentum of a light field. Instead of using the canonical formalism for the conjugate pair angle-angular momentum, we model this latter variable by the superposition of two independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 L. L. Sanchez-Soto , A. B. Klimov , P. de la Hoz , I. Rigas , J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , G. Leuchs

Structured light, optical fields engineered in their spatial, polarization, or phase degrees of freedom, has become a key resource across advanced communication, sensing, imaging, and quantum technologies. Optical fibers nowadays play an…

Spatiotemporal toroidal orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams are a developing class of spatiotemporal beams which have key applications within quantum physics, metrology, imaging and optical manipulation. However, the full realization of…

Advanced holographic techniques are increasingly demanded for high-capacity and secure information processing. In this context, orbital angular momentum (OAM) stands out as a powerful resource for optical multiplexing, offering access to an…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Joonkyo Jung , Hyeonhee Kim , Jonghwa Shin

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

Parallel sorting of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and polarization has recently acquired paramount importance and interest in a wide range of fields ranging from telecommunications to high-dimensional quantum cryptography. Due to their…

Optical modes with different orbital angular momentums (OAMs) per photon may be sorted by Mach-Zehnder interferometers incorporated with beam rotators, without resorting to OAM mode converters.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Haiqing Wei , Xin Xue

The composite optical beams being a result of superposition, are a promising way to study the orbital angular momentum and its effects. Their wide range of applications makes them attractive and easily available due to the growing interest…

In this work we demonstrate the existence of orbital angular momentum (OAM) bright and dark supermodes in a three-evanescently coupled cylindrical waveguides system. Bright and dark supermodes are characterized by their coupling and…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 A. Turpin , G. Pelegrí , J. Polo , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

We propose a platform that combines the fields of cavity optomagnonics and levitated optomechanics in order to control and probe the coupled spin-mechanics of magnetic dielectric particles. We theoretically study the dynamics of a levitated…

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

Spin angular momentum of a photon corresponds to a polarisation degree of freedom of lights, and such that various polarisation properties are coming from macroscopic manifestation of quantum-mechanical properties of lights. An orbital…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shinichi Saito