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Orbital angular momentum (OAM) based radio vortex wireless communications have received much attention recently because it can significantly increase the spectrum efficiency. The uniform circular array (UCA) is a simple antenna structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-14 Shanghua Gao , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Hailin Zhang

As an attractive degree of freedom in electromagnetic (EM) waves, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) enables infinite communication channels for both classical and quantum communications. The exploration of OAM generation inspires various…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-21 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

We present an optical setup for generating a sequence of light pulses in which the orbital angular momentum (OAM) degree of freedom is correlated with the temporal one. The setup is based on a single $q$-plate within a ring optical…

X-ray beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), are emerging as a powerful tool to probe matter. Recently, a method called self-seeded FEL with OAM (SSOAM) has been proposed to generate high-power x-ray OAM pulses, which places the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Chenzhi Xu , Jiawei Yan , Gianluca Geloni , Christoph Lechner , Haixiao Deng

We investigate the spectral degree of freedom of OAM-carrying localized waves, and its influence on their transverse intensity distribution. In particular, we focus our attention on two different families of spectra, namely exponentially…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-06 Souvik Agasti , Marco Ornigotti

The orbital angular momentum, OAM, of photons offers a suitable support to carry the quantum data of multiple users. We present two novel optical setups that send the information of n quantum communication parties through the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM), as an important degree of freedom of light, has been attracted extensive attention, due to its intrinsic feature of natural discrete infinite dimension. Manipulation of OAM spectra is crucial for many…

A vortex beam, akin to a quantized vortex in superfluids, possesses inherent orbital angular momentum (OAM), resulting in the propagation of a spiral-shaped wavefront. Here we demonstrate that a pulsed vortex beam with OAM in the terahertz…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-06 Takeshi Mizushima , Masahiro Sato

Twisted light has recently gained enormous interest in communication systems. Thus far, twisted light has not yet been utilized for visible light communication to transmit data. Here, by exploiting the color and orbital angular momentum…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuanying Zhang , Jikang Wang , Wuhong Zhang , Shuting Chen , Lixiang Chen

Light with helical phase structures, carrying quantized orbital angular momentum (OAM), has many applications in both classical and quantum optics, such as high-capacity optical communications and quantum information processing. Frequency…

The propagation and divergence properties of beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) play a crucial role in many applications. Here we present a general study on the divergence of optical beams with OAM. We show that the mean absolute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 G. Vallone , G. Parisi , F. Spinello , E. Mari , F. Tamburini , P. Villoresi

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) from a laser beam can be coherently transferred to a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring trap, in quantized units of $\hbar$. The light-matter coupling allows for the superradiant transfer of the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-29 Nicola Piovella , Gordon R. M. Robb , Romain Bachelard

The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

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…

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes

High-dimensional quantum systems offer many advantages over low-dimensional quantum systems. Meanwhile, unitary transformations on quantum states are important parts in various quantum information tasks, whereas they become technically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Dong-Xu Chen , Yunlong Wang , Feiran Wang , Jun-Long Zhao , Chui-Ping Yang

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has great potential in enhancing the information channel capacity in both classical and quantum optical communications. Long distance optical communication requires the wavelengths of light are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Dong-Sheng Ding , Wei Zhang , Shuai Shi , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

Twisted light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide powerful capabilities for applications in optical communications, microscopy, quantum optics and microparticle rotation. Here we introduce and experimentally validate a…

Metasurface holography has the advantage of realizing complex wavefront modulation by thin layers together with the progressive technique of computer-generated holographic imaging. Despite the well-known light parameters, like amplitude,…

This paper addresses the RF link budget of a communication system using unusual waves carrying an orbital angular momentum (OAM) in order to clearly analyse the fundamental changes for telecommunication applications. The study is based on a…