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A nonlinear optical medium results by the collective orientation of liquid crystal molecules tightly coupled to a transparent photoconductive layer. We show that such a medium can give a large gain, thus, if inserted in a ring cavity, it…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Umberto Bortolozzo , A. Montina , Fortunato Tito Arecchi , J. -P. Huignard , Stefania Residori

Ring-core optical fibers have been designed to carry orbital angular momentum modes. We demonstrate the imaging of these modes, individually identifying modes separated temporally by only 30~ps. A single-pixel camera operating in the…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-23 Steven D. Johnson , Zelin Ma , Miles Padgett , Siddharth Ramachandran

It is shown that the momentum density of free electromagnetic field splits into two parts. One has no contribution to the net momentum due to the transversality condition. The other yields all the momentum. The angular momentum that is…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-01 Chun-Fang Li

It has been expected that astronomical observations to detect the orbital angular momenta of electromagnetic waves may give us a new insight into astrophysics. Previous works pointed out the possibility that a rotating black hole can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-01 Ryusuke Nishikawa , Ken-ichi Nakao , Atsuki Masuda , Yasusada Nambu , Hideki Ishihara

Advances in the generation and the application of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV) are proceeding fast, but fundamental aspects of their nature remain obscure. Phys. Rev. A 107, L031501 (2023) (PRA) and Prog. Electromagn. Res. 177, 95…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Miguel A. Porras

Optical vortices are currently one of the most intensively studied topics in optics. These light beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), have been successfully utilized in the visible and infrared in a wide variety of…

Vortex dynamics are intriguing and challenging across multiple physics fields. In optics, customized spatiotemporally structured optical fields, especially spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV), offer the potential to tailor light via…

Using a quantum fluid model, a set of three paraxial coupled equations to describe the FEL instability is derived. These equations are solved numerically considering Laguerre-Gaussian modes as the initial conditions to study the transfer of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 J. A. Arteaga , A. Serbeto , J. T. Mendonça , K. H. Tsui , L. F. Monteiro

Broadband, coherent light carrying optical angular momentum is of potential utility for a variety of classical and quantum communication applications, but at present few such sources exist. We study the generation of supercontinua in a ring…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Calum Maitland , Fabio Biancalana

Spin orbit interaction of light in a disordered anisotropic medium is known to yield spin split modes in the momentum domain because of the random spatial gradient of the geometric phase of light. Here, we have studied the statistics of…

In light beams with circular or elliptic polarization, the transverse energy flow consists of the "spin" and "orbital" parts. Both of them can induce the orbital motion of microparticles suspended within the field of a light beam, and this…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. Ya. Bekshaev

We describe the coupling between orbital angular momentum (OAM) and temporal degrees of freedom in pulsed Laguerre-Gauss beams. The effects of this coupling are to increase significantly the duration of few-cycle pulses when the OAM carried…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 Miguel A. Porras

Recent measurements of the four pulsar timing arrays were interpreted as a signal of the low frequency stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that the amplitude and angular correlations of pulsar timing residuals can be…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Davor Palle

Waves of various types carry momentum, which is associated with their propagation direction, i.e., the phase gradient. The circulation of the wave momentum density gives rise to orbital angular momentum (AM). Additionally, for waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Optical spin angular momenta in a confined electromagnetic field exhibit remarkable difference with their free space counterparts, in particular, the optical transverse spin that is locked with the energy propagating direction lays the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Congcong Li , Peng Shi , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

We analyze spin and orbital angular momenta in monochromatic acoustic wave fields in a homogeneous medium. Despite being purely longitudinal (curl-free), inhomogeneous acoustic waves generically possess nonzero spin angular momentum density…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

Optical spatiotemporal vortices with transverse photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently become a focal point of research. In this work we theoretically and experimentally investigate optical spatiotemporal vortices with radial…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-26 Xin Liu , Qian Cao , Nianjia Zhang , Andy Chong , Yangjian Cai , Qiwen Zhan

Spatio-temporal optical vortices (STOVs) are a new type of optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) with optical phase circulation in space-time. In prior work [N. Jhajj et al., Phys. Rev X 6, 031037 (2016)], we demonstrated that a STOV is a…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-06 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

We recently introduced a new class of optical beams with a Bessel-like transverse profile and increasing beam width during propagation, akin to an "inverted pin". Owing to their specially engineered distribution, these beams have shown…

Spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) are of fundamental interest in wave physics. Acoustic wave, as a typical longitudinal wave, has been well studied in terms of orbital AM, but still considered unable to carry non-zero integral spin AM…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-12 Wei Wang , Yang Tan , Jingjing Liu , Bin Liang , Jianchun Cheng