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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…

Free electrons can possess an intrinsic orbital angular momentum, similar to those in an electron cloud, upon free-space propagation. The wavefront corresponding to the electron's wavefunction forms a helical structure with a number of…

We present a comprehensive review on the geometric-phase based metasurfaces for orbital angular momentum(OAM) generation and detection. These metasurfaces manipulate the electromagnetic (EM) wave by introducing abrupt phase change, which is…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-12 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

We investigate the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the context of high harmonic generation (HHG) within semiconductor crystals. Our contribution deals with the transfer and conservation of OAM in the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , M. F. Ciappina

We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that gradients in the phase of a light field exert forces on illuminated objects, including forces transverse to the direction of propagation. This effect generalizes the notion of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yohai Roichman , Bo Sun , Yael Roichman , Jesse Amato-Grill , David G. Grier

The self-imaging, or Talbot Effect, that occurs with the propagation of periodically structured waves has enabled several unique applications in optical metrology, image processing, data transmission, and matter-wave interferometry. In this…

The fundamental mode of rotation in quantum fluids is given by a vortex, whose quantized value yields the orbital angular momentum (OAM) per particle. If the vortex is displaced (off-centered) from the reference point for rotation, the…

Recent developments in the understanding of optical angular momentum have resulted in many demonstrations of unusual optical phenomena, such as optical beams with orbital angular momentum and transverse spinning light. Here we detail novel…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-05 Kayn A. Forbes , Vittorio Aita , Anatoly V. Zayats

Electrons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently been discovered theoretically and obtained experimentally that opens up possibilities for using them in high-energy physics. We consider such a twisted electron moving in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-12 Dmitry V. Karlovets

The angular momentum propagated by a beam of radiation has two contributions: spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM). SAM corresponds to wave polarisation, while OAM-carrying beams are characterized by a phase which…

The Talbot effect describes periodic revivals of field patterns and is ubiquitous across wave systems. In optics, it is mostly known for its manifestations in space and time, but is also observed in the wavevector and frequency spectra…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-26 Jianqi Hu , Matias Eriksson , Sylvain Gigan , Robert Fickler

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has great potential in enhancing the information channel capacity in both classical and quantum optical communications. Long distance optical communication requires the wavelengths of light are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Dong-Sheng Ding , Wei Zhang , Shuai Shi , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

Orbital angular momentum associated with the helical phase-front of optical beams provides an unbounded \qo{space} for both classical and quantum communications. Among the different approaches to generate and manipulate orbital angular…

In this paper we demonstrate the postulated mechanism of self-healing specifically due to orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) in radio vortex beams having equal beam-widths. In previous work we experimentally demonstrated self-healing effects in…

We report on the storage of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light via the phenomenon of Coherent Population Oscillation (CPO) in cold cesium atoms. The experiment is performed using a delayed four wave mixing configuration where the…

We theoretically investigate the effect of inhomogeneous light beams with (twisted light) and without (plane-wave light) orbital angular momentum on semiconductor-based nanostructures, when the symmetry axes of the beam and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 G. F. Quinteiro , A. O. Lucero , P. I. Tamborenea

With wavelength tunability, free-electron lasers (FELs) are well-suited for generating orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams in a wide photon energy range. We report the first experimental demonstration of OAM beam generation using an…

Orbitronics harnesses non-equilibrium densities and flows of electrons orbital angular momentum (OAM). Although the OAM must be long lived to be useful in information processing, the mechanisms leading to OAM non-conservation remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Daniel P. Arovas , Dimitrie Culcer

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

We demonstrate high-fidelity detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light using a compact and practical OAM spectrometer that maps the OAM spectrum to time. The spectrometer consists of a single optical delay loop to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-14 Paul Bierdz , Minho Kwon , Connor Roncaioli , Hui Deng