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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…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess an unbounded set of orthogonal modes, offering significant potential for optical communication and security. However, exploiting OAM beams in space has been hindered by the lack of…

We present a rigorous theoretical framework underpinning the technique of spin-echo modulated small-angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS), and show how the technique can be extended in order to generate spin-textured neutron beams with orbital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Quan Le Thien , Sam McKay , Roger Pynn , Gerardo Ortiz

We experimentally demonstrate a technique for the generation of optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum using a planar semiconductor microcavity. Despite being isotropic systems, the transverse electric - transverse magnetic (TE-TM)…

We reveal for the first time a direct relationship between the diffraction of optical beams and their carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM). We experimentally demonstrate a novel phenomenon that the anisotropic diffraction can be induced…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-17 Guo Liang , Huicong Zhang , Lei Fang , Qian Shou , Wei Hu , Qi Guo

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are popular tools for generating structured light fields and have fostered numerous applications in optics and photonics. Here, we explore the limits of what fields these devices are capable of generating and…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jonathan Pinnell , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Andrew Forbes

A method to generate the optical vortex beam with arbitrary superposition of different orders of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on a photonic chip is proposed. The distributed Fourier holographic gratings are proposed to convert the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Aiping Liu , Chang-Ling Zou , Xifeng Ren , Wen He , Mengze Wu , Guangcan Guo , Qin Wang

The problem of light waves interaction with charged particles becomes more and more complex starting with the case of plane waves, where the analytical solution is well known, to more natural, though more complicated situations which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Egor Dmitriev , Philipp Korneev

Communication using orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes has recently received a considerable interest in free space optical (FSO) communications. Propagating OAM modes through free space may be subject to atmospheric turbulence (AT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 El-Mehdi Amhoud , Marwa Chafii , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

We present methods for generating and for sorting specific orbital angular momentum (OAM) eigenmodes of a light beam with high efficiency, using a liquid crystal birefringent plate with unit topological charge, known as \qo{q-plate}. The…

The optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are commonly generated by modulating the available conventional light beam. This article shows that a micro-laser operates at the exceptional point (EP) of the non-Hermitian…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-01 Xing-Yuan Wang , Hua-Zhou Chen , Ying Li , Bo Li , Ren-Min Ma

Wireless backhaul offers a more cost-effective, time-efficient, and reconfigurable solution than wired backhaul to connect the edge-computing cells to the core network. As the amount of transmitted data increases, the low-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yufei Zhao , Ziyang Wang , Yilong Lu , Yong Liang Guan

Hybrid entangled states exhibit entanglement between different degrees of freedom of a particle pair and thus could be useful for asymmetric optical quantum network where the communication channels are characterized by different properties.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 Eleonora Nagali , Fabio Sciarrino

The annular electron beam has significant practical potential in high-energy physics and condensed matter physics, which can be used to edge-enhancement electron imaging, collimation of antiprotons in conventional linear accelerators,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yangchun Liu , Dong Wu , Tianyi Liang , Zhengmao Sheng , Xiantu He

Optical angular momentum (OAM) in light beams is manifested as the two-dimensional spatial distribution of its complex amplitude, necessitating a 2D detector for its measurement. Here we present a novel speckle-based machine learning…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-19 Vijay Kumar , Purnesh Singh Badavath

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

A general orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode selection principle is put forward involving the rotationally symmetric superposition of chiral states. This principle is not only capable of explaining the operation of spiral zone plate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Yuanjie Yang , G. Thirunavukkarasu , M. Babiker , Jun Yuan

An optical vortex (OV) is a beam with spiral wave front and screw phase dislocation. This kind of beams is attracting rising interest in various fields. Here we theoretically proposed and experimentally realized a novel but easy approach to…

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

We demonstrate the polarization of electron orbital angular momentum (OAM) in neutral atoms by integrating the Zeeman effect with attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS). Using density matrix simulations, we show that in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hongtao Hu , Sebastian Mai , Peng Peng , Andrius Baltuška , Xinhua Xie