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Bessel beams carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). Opening up of the Hilbert space of OAM for information coding makes Bessel beams potential candidates for utility in data transfer and optical communication. A laser bullet is the…

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Quantized vortices stunningly illustrate the coherent nature of a superfluid Bose condensate of alkali atoms. Introducing an optical lattice depletes this coherence. Consequently, novel vortex physics may emerge in an experiment on a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-24 Daniel S. Goldbaum , Erich J. Mueller

Optical beams are solutions to the paraxial wave equation (PWE). In this work we report a new, to our knowledge, optical beam. We solve the PWE by using the angular spectrum of plane waves theory in circular cylindrical coordinates. This…

Enhancing the ability to resolve axial details is crucial in three-dimensional optical imaging. We provide experimental evidence showcasing the ultimate precision achievable in axial localization using vortex beams. For Laguerre-Gauss (LG)…

We propose to trap circular Rydberg atoms (CRAs) by a ponderomotive potential well formed with a superimposed vortex light beam. We calculate analytically the ponderomotive potential energy for a Bessel vortex light beam. We work out a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Yi Liao , Hao-Lin Wang , Pengcheng Zhao

An optical vortex, produced at one point in an optical beam, would propagate through an optical system to another point where the vortex can be used for some purpose. However, asymmetrical optical elements in such a system can cause…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-09 Filippus S. Roux

Ultrafast pulse optical vortices are spatiotemporal structures with a diverse range of applications. There are different ways to generate them, often restricted to a wavelength range. Likewise, characterization techniques frequently possess…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Miguel López-Ripa , Íñigo Sola , Benjamín Alonso

We report, in theory and experiment, on a novel class of controlled light capsules with nearly perfect darkness, directly employing intrinsic properties of modified Bessel-Gauss beams. These beams are able to naturally create…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-12 Lei Gong , Weiwei Liu , Qian Zhao , Yuxuan Ren , Xingze Qiu , Mincheng Zhong , Yinmei Li

We investigate the stationary vortex solutions in two-dimensional (2D) Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By introducing the generalized momentum operator, the linear version of the system can be solved…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-01-03 Jun-Zhu Li , Huan-Bo Luo , Lu Li

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…

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

Multi-mode vortex light is a superposition of different orbital angular momentum (OAM) lights. However, as the number of OAM modes increases, the sampling constant changes. Using the traditional sparsely sampling will lead to severe loss of…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 Jinjin Li , Chaoying Zhao

We study controlled methods of preparing vortex configurations in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates and their use in the studies of fundamental vortex scattering, reconnection processes and superfluid sound emission. We explore techniques of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Ruostekoski , Z. Dutton

Using acoustooptic (AO) cells based on TeO2 crystal and silica glass, we have experimentally shown for the first time that the intensity profile and the phase structure of the vortex beam are preserved under AO Bragg diffraction. As a…

Optical fibers typically confine light through total internal reflection or through photonic bandgaps. Here we show that light can be perfectly guided in optical fibers through a different mechanism based on bound states in the continuum…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-18 Xingwei Gao , Bo Zhen , Marin Soljačić , Hongsheng Chen , Chia Wei Hsu

We present a study of radially and azimuthally polarized Bessel-Gauss beams in both the paraxial and nonparaxial regimes. We discuss the validity of the paraxial approximation and the form of the nonparaxial corrections for Bessel-Gauss…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Daena Madhi , Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

Structured light has revolutionized optical particle manipulation and nano-scale material processing. In particular, propagation-invariant structured light fields, such as Bessel beams, have enabled applications that require robust…

We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that highly absorbing particles can be trapped and manipulated in a single highly focused Gaussian beam. Our studies of the effects of polarized light on such particles show that they can…

Orbital angular momentum is an important concept in optics, thus numerous researches explore the principles and applications of light beams with orbital angular momentum. This type of light beam is also called vortex beam, whose inherent…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Charles Chen

In nonlinear Kerr media at intensities such that multiphoton absorption is significant, a vortex of topological charge m in the center of a high-order nonlinear Bessel beam (NBB) can be stable and subsist endlessly. We show that the…