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Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a promising degree of freedom for fundamental studies in electromagnetics and quantum mechanics. The unlimited state space of OAM shows a great potential to enhance channel capacities of classical and…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-16 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Electromagnetic (EM) waves with helical wavefront carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), which is associated with the azimuthal phase of the complex electric field. OAM is a new degree of freedom in EM waves and is promising for channel…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-10 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

This paper presents the design, simulation, and experimental verification of a flexible thin-film conformal metasurface for backscattering control via orbital angular momentum (OAM) wave generation in the X-band (9.5-10.5 GHz). The…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Yury M. Meleshin , Maxim V. Azarov , Artem A. Airapetian , Konstantin S. Lyalin

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

Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum are extensively studied owing to its potential to expand channel capacity of microwave and optical communication. By utilizing the Pancharatnam-Berry phase concept, an ultra-wideband single…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Ling-Jun Yang , Sheng Sun , Wei E. I. Sha

Nonlocal metasurfaces provide a compact route to generating momentum-space optical vortices but are limited by steep dispersion typically associated with high-quality (Q) factor resonances, resulting in narrowband and inefficient operation.…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Keren Wang , Kaili Sun , Jing Du , Peijuan Dai , Hao Zhou , Lujun Huang , Zhanghua Han , Wei Wang

We present a new theory for orbital angular momentum (OAM) generation by chaotic phase surfaces with discrete integer bias distributions. We derive fundamental selection rules that determine which OAM modes can be coherently generated. Our…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Netzer Moriya

Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been widely applied in various electromagnetic, optical, and quantum systems. A tailored OAM spectrum composed of several specific modes as expected holds a promise for expanding the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Ling-Jun Yang , Sheng Sun , Wei E. I. Sha

In recent years, optical vortex beams possessing orbital angular momentum have caught much attention due to their potential for high capacity optical communications. This capability arises from the unbounded topological charges of orbital…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Shumei Chen , Yuan Cai , Guixin Li , Shuang Zhang , Kok Wai Cheah

A novel polarized reflectarray is designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized to show its flexibility and efficiency to control wave generation and focusing of orbital angular momentum (OAM) vortices with desirable OAM modes in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Fengxia Li , Haiyan Chen , Yang Zhou , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu , Peiheng Zhou , Longjiang Deng

An orbital angular momentum (OAM) detection approach at microwave band is proposed. A transmittance function is exploited to model a transmissive metasurface. Then the metasurface is designed to convert an OAM wave to multiple waves, only…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Recent advances in metasurfaces have shown the importance of controlling the bianisotropic response of the constituent meta-atoms for maximum efficiency wavefront transformation. Under the paradigm of a bianisotropic metasurface, full…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Junfei Li , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Chen Shen , Zhetao Jia , Sergei Tretyakov , Steven Cummer

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

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

Dynamic generation of obitial angular momentum (OAM) of light has enabled complex manipulation of micro-particles, high-dimension quantum entanglement and optical communication. We report an analog vortex transmitter made of one bilaterally…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Kun Huang , Hong Liu , M. Q. Mehmood , S. Mei , A. Danner , Jinghua Teng , Chengwei Qiu

Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have found many applications. This work reports a broadband millimeter wave OAM generator applying a dielectric metasurface with high-refractive-index dielectric elements…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Fan Bi , Zhongling Ba , Yunting Li , Xiong Wang

As an attractive degree of freedom in electromagnetic (EM) waves, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) enables infinite communication channels for both classical and quantum communications. The exploration of OAM generation inspires various…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-21 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Establishing and approaching the fundamental limit of orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing are necessary and increasingly urgent for current multiple-input multiple-output research. In this work, we elaborate the fundamental limit in…

Despite a plethora of applications ranging from quantum memories to high-resolution lithography, the current technologies to generate vector vortex beams (VVBs) suffer from less efficient energy use, poor resolution, low damage threshold,…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-04 Fuyong Yue , Dandan Wen , Jingtao Xin , Brian Gerardot , Jensen Li , Xianzhong Chen

Harnessing the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an appealing approach to developing photonic technologies for future applications in optical communications and high- dimensional Quantum Key Distributions (QKD). An outstanding…

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