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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

Light possesses both spin and orbital angular momentum (AM). While spin AM is determined by helicity of circular-polarization, orbital AM is characterized by topological charge of vortex beam. Interaction of AM with optical beam orbit leads…

The discovery of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in light established a new degree of freedom by which to control not only its flow but also its interaction with matter. Here, we show that by shaping extremely sub-wavelength polariton modes,…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by helical light beams is an unbounded degree of freedom of photons that offers a promising playground in modern photonics. So far, integrated sources of coherent light carrying OAM are based on…

The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

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…

Propagation-invariant or non-diffracting optical beams have received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, the pulsed nature of light waves and the structured property of optical media like waveguides are often…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-23 Pierre Béjot , Bertrand Kibler

Spin and orbital angular momenta of light are attractive resources to harness for encoding, and manipulating information, with applications in various quantum photonic technologies. However, to fully harness that potential, we require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Elisabeth Wagner , Mikolaj K. Schmidt , Michael J. Steel , Polina R. Sharapova

We propose a scheme to controllably convert the wavefront of an arbitrary incident beam into a helical one by compact transformation slabs, thus enabling the output beam to carry desirable orbital angular momentum (OAM). First, based on…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in…

Photonics has become a mature field of quantum information science, where integrated optical circuits offer a way to scale the complexity of the setup as well as the dimensionality of the quantum state. On photonic chips, paths are the…

Spatiotemporal optical vortices carry transverse orbital angular momentum (t-OAM), which give rise to spatiotemporal topological charge (ST-TC). To unleash the full potential of t-OAM in expanding the capacity of communication and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hsiao-Chih Huang , Chen-Ting Liao , Hui Min Leung

The Wigner distribution function and its spatial-angular moments (intensity-moments) are known as efficient instruments for characterization of complex quasimonochromatic light beams and their transformations. In this paper, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-21 Aleksandr Bekshaev , Oleg Angelsky , Claudia Zenkova

The nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) associated with spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) pulses has been the subject of recent debate. We demonstrate that the approaches to tOAM presented in several recent papers…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-25 N. Tripathi , S. W. Hancock , H. M. Milchberg

The creation and manipulation of photonic skyrmions provide a novel degree of freedom for light-matter interactions, optical communication and nanometrology. Since the localized vortex within skyrmions arises from the twist and curl of the…

Vortex $\gamma$ photons with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) possess a wealth of applications in various fields, e.g.-strong-laser physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics-yet their generation remains unsettled.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-19 Mamutjan Ababekri , Ren-Tong Guo , Feng Wan , B. Qiao , Zhongpeng Li , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Weimin Zhou , Yuqiu Gu , Jian-Xing Li

Light with helical phase structures, carrying quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM), has many applications in both classical and quantum optics, such as high-capacity optical communications and quantum information processing. Frequency…

Photons with a helical phase front (twisted photons) can carry a discrete, in principle, unbounded amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Twisted single-photons have been demonstrated as a high-dimensional quantum system with information…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-26 Bo Chen , Yuming Wei , Tianming Zhao , Shunfa Liu , Beimeng Yao , Ying Yu , Jin Liu , Xue-hua Wang

The orbital angular momentum, OAM, of photons offers a suitable support to carry the quantum data of multiple users. We present two novel optical setups that send the information of n quantum communication parties through the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) has traditionally relied on vortex beams with helical phase fronts imparting quantized intrinsic OAM. Here, we introduce a fundamentally vortex_free framework where intrinsic OAM arises from the…