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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…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

We report the first demonstration of a direct interaction between the extraordinary transverse spin angular momentum in evanescent waves and the intrinsic orbital angular momentum in optical vortex beams. By tapping the evanescent wave of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Zengkai Shao , Jiangbo Zhu , Yujie Chen , Yanfeng Zhang , Siyuan Yu

Rashba-split surface band is characterized by a one-to-one correspondence between the electron's momentum k and its spin orientation. Here we show that a similar correspondence between momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) must exist…

General relativistic effects in the weak field approximation are calculated for electromagnetic Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams. The current work is an extension of previous work on the precession of a spinning neutral particle in the weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 James Strohaber

Optical interferometry has dramatically advanced the development of modern science and technology. Here we introduce an interesting centroid evolution phenomenon of orbital angular momentum (OAM) interference fields with broken rotational…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-29 Liang Fang , Jinman Chen , Qinjun Chen , Chujun Zhao

We establish a decomposition of the intensity-intensity correlation of a scalar optical beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) across multiple modes into intermodal contributions, thereby linking it, within the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Jyrki Laatikainen , Sushil Pokharel , Olga Korotkova

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light and optical vortices are closely related concepts that are often conflated. The conserved OAM arises fundamentally from the SO(3) rotational symmetry of spacetime, while the concept of vortices…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-06 Rui-Feng Liang , L. Yang

The interaction between light's angular momentum (AM) and material systems has unlocked new avenues in structured photonics, including in magneto-optical (MO) materials. While spin angular momentum (SAM) effects in MO systems are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Seth Nelson , Cong Yu , Daniel Watson , Shahrzad Ramtinfard , Miguel Levy

The spin angular momentum in an elliptically polarized beam of light plays several noteworthy roles in optical traps. It contributes to the linear momentum density in a non-uniform beam, and thus to the radiation pressure exerted on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 David B. Ruffner , David G. Grier

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…

Diffractionless propagation of optical beams through atomic vapors is investigated. The atoms in the vapor are operated in a three-level Raman configuration. A suitably chosen control beam couples to one of the transitions, and thereby…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. N. Dey , J. Evers

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

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

We study the interaction of laser pulses carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) with structural asymmetry quantum dot molecules characterized by four energy levels. We demonstrate how the inter-dot tunneling endows exchange of optical…

Transverse (Hall-effect) and Goos--H\"{a}nchen shifts of light beams reflected/refracted at planar interfaces are important wave phenomena, which can be significantly modified and enhanced by the presence of intrinsic orbital angular…

The particle definition varies across different theories. The quantum field theory in curved spacetime shows that from the perspective of a linearly accelerated observer, an inertial empty space may be full of thermal particles. This effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan , Lixiang Chen

Optical intrinsic angular momentum can be regarded as derivation from spatial superposition of optical vector fields embodied by spinning or and spiraling the electric field vector. We employ vectorial formulation derivation to…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Jian Wang

Light beam with optical vortices can propagate in free space only with integer orbital angular momentum. Here, we invert this scientific consensus theoretically and experimentally by proposing light beams carrying natural non-integer…

In the study of orbital angular momentum (OAM), the focus has been predominantly on the intra-atomic contribution. However, recent research has begun to shift towards exploring the inter-atomic contribution to OAM dynamics. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Jongjun M. Lee , Min Ju Park , Hyun-Woo Lee