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It is demonstrated that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by the elliptic beam without the phase-singularity can induce the anisotropic diffraction (AD). The quantitative relation between the OAM and its induced AD is analytically…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Guo Liang , Yuqing Wang , Qi Guo , Huicong Zhang

Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have gained significant interest due to their unique properties, enhancing various communication systems and enabling applications such as the characterization of material or molecular…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Ju-Young Kim , Minhaeng Cho

Besides a linear momentum, optical fields carry an angular momentum (AM), which have two intrinsic components: one is spin angular momentum (SAM) related to the polarization state of the field, and the other is orbital angular momentum…

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) waves were first recognized as those specific vortex solutions of the paraxial Helmholtz equation for which the orbital contribution to the total angular momentum of the beam yields an integer multiple of…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-23 Andrea Cagliero

In this short note we derive an approximate expression for the mode density of modes carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a cylindrical cavity which is large compared to the inverse wavevector in any direction. We argue that in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 Mauritz Andersson , Eilert Berglind , Gunnar Björk

Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices (STOVs) are structured electromagnetic fields propagating in free space with phase singularities in the space-time domain. Depending on the tilt of the helical phase front, STOVs can carry both longitudinal…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-26 Pronoy Das , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob

We report on the storage of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light via the phenomenon of Coherent Population Oscillation (CPO) in cold cesium atoms. The experiment is performed using a delayed four wave mixing configuration where the…

In the recent paper [1] it was shown that for paraxial propagation of scalar waves, the transverse linear momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are related to the wave coherence function. Although both of these quantities are…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-10 Mikhail Charnotskii

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

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

A method to temporally tailor the properties of X-ray radiation carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is presented. In simulations, an electron beam is prepared with a temporally modulated micro-bunching structure which, when radiating at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Morgan , B. W. J. McNeil

On-chip photon sources carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are in demand for high-capacity optical information processing in both classical and quantum regimes. However, currently-exploited integrated OAM sources have been primarily…

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)…

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

A plane, monochromatic electromagnetic wave propagating in free space can have a certain amount of spin angular momentum but cannot possess any orbital angular momentum. Even the spin angular momentum of the plane-wave is difficult to…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Masud Mansuripur

We measure the change in transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) per photon, delta L_y, applied to an optical pulse by a pure amplitude perturbation. The results are in excellent agreement with calculations and simulations of the…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-27 S. W. Hancock , N. Tripathi , M. S. Le , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

Physics of photons and electrons carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is an exciting field of research in quantum optics and electron microscopy. Usually, one considers propagation of these vortex beams in a medium or external fields and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 I. P. Ivanov

We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of electrons is dynamically induced by circularly polarized phonons. The induced OAM originates from the adiabatic evolution in which electrons acquire Berry phase formulated in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Dapeng Yao , Dongwook Go , Yuriy Mokrousov , Shuichi Murakami

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

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) wireless communication technology is widely studied in recent literatures. But the atmospheric turbulence is rarely considered in analyzing the capacity of OAM-based millimeter wave (OAM-mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Hanqiong Lou , Xiaohu Ge , Qiang Li