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We use a method based on optical coherent transients to study the vibrational coherence lifetimes of atoms trapped in the potential wells of a near-resonant optical lattice in the oscillating regime. The dependence of the positions and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 O. Morsch , P. H. Jones , D. R. Meacher

In this work, we study optical self-focusing that leads to collapse events for the time-independent model of co-propagating beams with different wavelengths. We show that collapse events depend on the combined critical power of two beams…

Optical vector beam generation based on the superposition technique [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107(5), 053601 (2011)] has attracted significant interest in both fundamental and applied optics due to its simplicity and cost-effectiveness. In this…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. Srinivasa Rao

Multiphase shear flows often show banded structures that affect the global behavior of complex fluids e.g. in microdevices. Here we investigate numerically the banding of emulsions, i.e. the formation of regions of high and low volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-30 Francesco De Vita , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Sergio Caserta , Luca Brandt

In this paper, we investigate a two-dimensional photonic array featuring a circular shape and an alternating gain and loss pattern. Our analysis revolves around determining the presence and resilience of optical ring modes with varying…

When a droplet impacts a liquid film, a vortex ring form and govern momentum and species transport. We experimentally investigate vortex ring formation, propagation and instability during droplet impact onto liquid films, with particular…

Vortices are topological objects representing the circular motion of a fluid. With their additional degree of freedom, the 'vorticity', they have been widely investigated in many physical systems and different materials for fundamental…

Optical vortices (OVs) have emerged as a revolutionary concept in modern photonics, offering a unique method of manipulating light beyond conventional Gaussian beams. Despite their vast potential, phase topology stability remains…

In optics, we can generate vortex beams using specific methods such as spiral phase plates or computer generated holograms. While, in nature, it is worth noting that water can produce vortices by a circularly symmetrical hole. So, if a…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light beams for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) provide an additional degree of freedom to study the light-matter interaction at ultrafast timescales. A more sophisticated configuration is a perfect…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-01 Bikash Kumar Das , C. Granados , M. Krüger , Marcelo F. Ciappina

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

Optical vortex beams are a type of topological light characterized by their inherent orbital angular momentum, leading to the propagation of a spiral-shaped wavefront. In this study, we focus on two-dimensional electrons with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Shunki Yamamoto , Masahiro Sato , Satoshi Fujimoto , Takeshi Mizushima

Recent advancements in wavefront shaping techniques have facilitated the study of complex structured light's propagation with orbital angular momentum (OAM) within various media. The introduction of a spiral phase modulation to the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Igor Meglinski , Ivan Lopushenko , Anton Sdobnov , Alexander Bykov

Within the context of a first-order phase transition in the early Universe, we study the collision process for vacuum bubbles expanding in a plasma. The effects of the plasma are simulated by introducing a damping term in the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Antonio Ferrera , Alejandra Melfo

We investigate the problem of shaping radially symmetric annular beams into desired intensity patterns along the optical axis. Within the Fresnel approximation, we show that this problem can be expressed in a variational form equivalent to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 John A. Gemmer , Shankar C. Venkataramani , Charles G. Durfee , Jerome V. Moloney

Particle beam eigen-emittances comprise the lowest set of rms-emittances that can be imposed to a beam through symplectic optical elements. For cases of practical relevance this paper introduces an approximation providing a very simple and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 L. Groening , C. Xiao , M. Chung

We report the experimental demonstration of the induced polarization-dependent optical vortex beams. We use the Talbot configuration as a method to probe this effect. In particular, our simple experiment shows the direct measurement of this…

Femtosecond light pulses carrying optical angular momentums (OAMs), possessing intriguing properties of helical phase fronts and ultrafast temporal profiles, enable many applications in nonlinear optics, strong-field physics and laser…

The recent demonstration of electron vortex beams has opened up the new possibility of studying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the interaction between electron beams and matter. To this aim, methods to analyze the OAM of an electron beam…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-18 Giulio Guzzinati , Laura Clark , Armand Béché , Jo Verbeeck

The generation of high-order harmonic beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) promises application in diverse research fields. Recently, the perfect spatiotemporal optical vortex (PSTOV) beam has garnered much attention due to its…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , W. Gao