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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 show numerically that vector antenna arrays can generate radio beams which exhibit spin and orbital angular momentum characteristics similar to those of helical Laguerre-Gauss laser beams in paraxial optics. For low frequencies (< 1…

We report on the storage of orbital angu- lar momentum (OAM) of light of a Laguerre-Gaussian mode in an ensemble of cold cesium atoms and its re- trieval along an axis different from the incident light beam. We employed a time-delayed…

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

Structured light carrying orbital angular momentum enables new regimes of nonlinear light-matter interaction. Here we develop a molecular quantum electrodynamics description of third-harmonic generation (THG) driven by focused…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Szymon Kurkowski , Kayn A Forbes

It is well known that reflection of a Gaussian light beam ($\text{TEM}_{00}$) by a planar dielectric interface leads to four beam shifts when compared to the geometrical-optics prediction. These are the spatial Goos-H\"{a}nchen (GH) shift,…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Merano , N. Hermosa , A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

We develop a semiclassical theory to describe the photon momenta in left-handed materials (LHMs). A single two-level atom is introduced as an "explorer" to probe the momenta of photons. We demonstrate that the linear momentum of the photons…

Although several laser-plasma-based methods have been proposed for generating energetic electrons, positrons and {\gamma}-photons, manipulation of their microstructures is still challenging, and their angular momentum control has not yet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Xing-Long Zhu , Tong-Pu Yu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Zheng-Ming Sheng

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has potential to impact a wide variety of applications ranging from optical communications to quantum information and optical forces for the excitation and manipulation of atoms, molecules, and…

The measurement of high-dimensional entangled states of orbital angular momentum prepared by spontaneous parametric down-conversion can be considered in two separate stages: a generation stage and a detection stage. Given a certain number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. M. Miatto , D. Giovannini , J. Romero , S. Franke-Arnold , S. M. Barnett , M. J. Padgett

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

The nature of light-matter interaction is governed by the spatial-temporal structures of a light field and material wavefunctions. The emergence of the light beam with transverse phase vortex, or equivalently orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

We consider propagation of a paraxial beam carrying the spin angular momentum (polarization) and intrinsic orbital angular momentum (IOAM) in a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium. It is shown that the presence of IOAM can dramatically…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh

We analyze the effect of Proca mass and orbital angular momentum of photons imposed by a structured plasma in Kerr-Newman and Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetimes. The presence of characteristic lengths in a turbulent plasma converts the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-02 F. Tamburini , B. ThidÉ

We investigate two-photon entangled states using two important degrees of freedom of the electromagnetic field, namely orbital angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum. For photons propagating in the same direction we apply the idea…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Bhatti , Joachim von Zanthier , Girish S. Agarwal

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…

Intense spatial or spatiotemporal vortex pulses from the extreme ultraviolet to soft X-ray spectral windows are expected to provide new degrees of freedom for a variety of key applications since they carry longitudinal or transverse orbital…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Yipeng Wu , Zan Nie , Fei Li , Chaojie Zhang , Ken A Marsh , Warren B. Mori , Chan Joshi

We introduce a new method to generate and tune the optical orbital angular momentum of a focused Gaussian beam passing through the optical superlattice under the electro-optic effect. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) arises from the curl…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jie Wang , Jianhong Shi , Linghao Tian , Xianfeng Chen

Vortex $\gamma$ photons carrying orbital angular momenta (OAM) hold great potential for various applications. However, their generation remains a great challenge. Here, we successfully generate sub-MeV vortex $\gamma$ photons via…

Laguerre-Gauss beams, and more generally the orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) provide valuable research tools for optical manipulation, processing, imaging and communication. Here we explore the high-efficiency frequency conversion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Rachel F. Offer , Dalius Stulga , Erling Riis , Sonja Franke-Arnold , Aidan S. Arnold