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We introduce a new method to generate and tune the optical orbital angular momentum of a focused Gaussian beam passing through the optical superlattice under the electro-optic effect. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) arises from the curl…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jie Wang , Jianhong Shi , Linghao Tian , Xianfeng Chen

Understanding and exploiting the dynamics of complex nonlinear systems is nowadays at the core of a broad range of scientific and technological endeavors. Within the optical domain, light evolution in a nonlinear multimode environment…

Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is a promising degree of freedom for next-generation communication. By exploiting the orthogonality of OAM modes, multi-channel division enables a linearly increase in communication performance…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Junsu Kim , Hyunchae Chun , SeungRyong Park

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) conservation plays an important role in shaping and controlling structured light with nonlinear optics. The OAM of a beam originating from three-wave mixing should be the sum or difference of the other two…

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

The quest for ever higher information capacities has brought about a renaissance in multimode optical waveguide systems. This resurgence of interest has recently initiated a flurry of activities in nonlinear multimode fiber optics. The…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-19 Fan O. Wu , Absar U. Hassan , Demetrios N. Christodoulides

To manipulate orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by light beams, there is a great interest in designing various optical elements from the deep-ultraviolet to the microwave. Normally, the OAM variation introduced by optical elements can…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-31 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Yidong Huang

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…

Linear optics imposes a relation that is more general than the second law of thermodynamics: For modes undergoing a linear evolution, the full mean occupation number (i.e. photon number for optical modes) does not decrease, provided that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 A. Hovhannisyan , V. Stepanyan , A. E. Allahverdyan

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) light possesses in addition to its usual helicity ($s=\pm \hbar$, depending on its circular polarization) an orbital angular momentum $l$. This means that in principle one can transfer more than a single…

Because of their massless nature, photons do not interact in linear optical media. However, light beam propagation in nonlinear media permits to break this paradigm, and makes it possible to observe photon-photon interactions. Based on this…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-27 M. Ferraro , F. Mangini , F. O. Wu , M. Zitelli , D. N. Christodoulides , S. Wabnitz

We present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in theory and experiments on complex light propagation phenomena in nonlinear multimode fibers. On the basis of the wave turbulence theory, we derive kinetic equations describing the…

Drawing on classical thermodynamic principles-such as the equipartition of energy and entropy maximization-extensive research has shown that the evolution of optical power in multimode optical systems tends toward a Rayleigh-Jeans…

In the present project, we study the dynamics of the two-level system coupled with the multimode optical system. In particular, we considered a square lattice of optical fibers. We aimed to answer whether we can infer information about the…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields, especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the severely congested spectrum of commercial communication systems. Beams…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Rui Chen , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) as both classical and quantum states of light has proven essential in numerous applications, from high-capacity information transfer to enhanced precision and accuracy in metrology. Here, we extend OAM…

Interaction of spin and intrinsic orbital angular momentum of light is observed, as evidenced by length-dependent rotations of both spatial patterns and optical polarization in a cylindrically-symmetric isotropic optical fiber. Such…

The turbulence induced decay of orbital angular momentum (OAM) entanglement between two photons is investigated numerically and experimentally. To compare our results with previous work, we simulate the turbulent atmosphere with a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim , Filippus S. Roux , Melanie McLaren , Thomas Konrad , Andrew Forbes

We have experimentally studied the degradation of mode purity for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagating through simulated atmospheric turbulence. The turbulence is modeled as a randomly varying phase aberration,…

We present a novel technique for generating beams of light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) that increases mode purity and decreases singularity splitting by orders of magnitude. This technique also works to control and mitigate beam…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 Andrew Sontag , Mehmet A. Noyan , James M. Kikkawa