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In this letter, we investigate the effect of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on elastic photon-photon scattering in vacuum for the first time. We define exact solutions to the vacuum electro-magnetic wave equation which carry OAM. Using…

We investigate the spectral features of the emission from a superluminal polarization current whose distribution pattern rotates with an angular frequency $\omega$ and oscillates with an incommensurate frequency $\Omega >\omega$. This type…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton

High power orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) beam has dominant advantages in capacity increasing and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distance. Utilizing coherent combination of beam array technique and…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dong Zhi , Yanxing Ma , Pu Zhou , Rumao Tao , Xiaolin Wang , Lei Si , Zejin Liu

Intense laser ionization expands Einstein's photoelectric effect rules giving a wealth of phenomena widely studied over the last decades. In all cases, so far, photons were assumed to carry one unit of angular momentum. However it is now…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 A. Picón , J. Mompart , J. R. Vázquez de Aldana , L. Plaja , G. F. Calvo , L. Roso

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has gained great interest due to its most attractive feature of high dimensionality, and several ground-breaking demonstrations in communication based on OAM multiplexing have been carried out. Accordingly, a…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-22 Zhihan Zhu , Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li

The orbital angular momentum of light (OAM) provides a promising approach for the implementation of multidimensional states (qudits) for quantum information purposes. In order to characterize the degradation undergone by the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Daniele Giovannini , Eleonora Nagali , Lorenzo Marrucci , Fabio Sciarrino

Twisted electromagnetic waves, of which the helical phase front is called orbital angular momentum (OAM), have been recently explored for quantum information, high speed communication and radar detections. In this context, generation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Jian Ren , Kwok Wa Leung

The generation of rapidly tunable Optical Vortex (OV) beams is one of the most demanding research areas of the present era as they possess Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) with additional degrees of freedom that can be exploited to enhance…

We study the orbital angular momentum (OAM) transfer from a weak Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) field to a weak plane-wave in two closed-loop three-level $V$-type atomic systems. In the first scheme, the atomic system has two non-degenerate upper…

The function to measure orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution of vortex light is essential for OAM applications. Although there are lots of works to measure OAM modes, it is difficult to measure the power distribution of different OAM…

We present a method to efficiently multiply or divide the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light beams using a sequence of two optical elements. The key-element is represented by an optical transformation mapping the azimuthal phase…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-22 Gianluca Ruffato , Michele Massari , Filippo Romanato

Exact eigen modes with orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the complex media of unmagnetized homogeneous plasma are studied. Three exact eigen modes with OAM are discovered, i.e., photons, phonons, and plasmons. It is found that an OAM photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Qiang Chen , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) detection underpins almost all aspects of vortex beams' advances such as communication and quantum analogy. Conventional schemes are frustrated by low speed, complicated system, limited detection range. Here,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Wang , Ziyu Zhan , Futai Hu , Yuan Meng , Zeqi Liu , Xing Fu , Qiang Liu

The generation of relativistic vortex electron beams via photoemission requires ultraviolet laser beams with well-controlled orbital angular momentum (OAM) and compatibility with radio-frequency (RF) photoinjector drive-laser systems.…

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

Laser beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) provide an additional degree of freedom and have found wide applications ranging from optical communications and optical manipulation to quantum information. The efficient generation and…

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

Light carrying spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) makes possible new types of optical vortices arising from transverse OAM. ST-OAM pulses exhibit novel properties during propagation, transmission, refraction, diffraction, and…

Light beams with an azimuthal phase dependency of $e^{i\ell\phi}$ have helical phase fronts and thus carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), a strictly conserved quantity with propagation. Here, we engineer quasi three-dimensional (3D)…

This study delves into the potential of harnessing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) property of electromagnetic waves in near-field and line-of-sight scenarios by utilizing large intelligent surfaces, in the context of holographic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Giulia Torcolacci , Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari