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Light carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (T-OAM) in the form of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) is opening new degrees of freedom for structured light manipulation. Such spatiotemporal wavepackets hold significant…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jinxin Wu , Dan Wang , Qingqing Liang , Jianhua Hu , Jiahao Dong , Jijun Feng , Yi Liu

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…

The Wigner distribution function and its spatial-angular moments (intensity-moments) are known as efficient instruments for characterization of complex quasimonochromatic light beams and their transformations. In this paper, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-21 Aleksandr Bekshaev , Oleg Angelsky , Claudia Zenkova

This compilation represents a summary of the main physical foundations underlying the structure and properties of spatio-temporal optical vortices (STOV). The general approach to the STOV description and characterization is based on the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Aleksandr Bekshaev

Recently, photons have been observed to possess transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM); however, it is unclear as whether they can hold a transverse OAM higher than 1. Here, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that high-order…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-13 Wei Chen , Wang Zhang , Yuan Liu , Fan-Chao Meng , John M. Dudley , Yan-Qing Lu

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) with transverse orbital angular momentum have emerged as a significant research topic. While various STOV fields have been explored, they often suffer from a critical limitation: the spatial…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-22 Haifa Fan , Qian Cao , Xin Liu , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

An ongoing debate surrounding the intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) attributed to spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) light pulses has raised the energy and photon-density centroids as two alternative frameworks to define…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Titouan Gadeyne , Thierry Ruchon

The nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) associated with spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) pulses has been the subject of recent debate. We demonstrate that the approaches to tOAM presented in several recent papers…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-25 N. Tripathi , S. W. Hancock , H. M. Milchberg

Motivated by recent progress in the generation of optical spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs), there is a theoretical discussion about the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by such pulses. Two recent works [K. Y. Bliokh,…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-20 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Advances in the generation and the application of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV) are proceeding fast, but fundamental aspects of their nature remain obscure. Phys. Rev. A 107, L031501 (2023) (PRA) and Prog. Electromagn. Res. 177, 95…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Miguel A. Porras

Spatial characteristics of the optical-vortex (OV) beams created during the Gaussian beam diffraction by a grating with groove bifurcation are analyzed theoretically and numerically. In contrast to previous works, condition of small-angle…

Optics · Physics 2009-07-16 A. Bekshaev , O. Orlinska , M. Vasnetsov

As a new degree of freedom for optical manipulation, recently spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carrying transverse orbital angular momentums have been experimentally demonstrated with pulse shapers. Here a spatiotemporal…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-08 Junyi Huang , Jiahao Zhang , Tengfeng Zhu , Zhichao Ruan

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV) are space-time structured light pulses with a unique topology that couples spatial and temporal domains and carry transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM). Up to now, their generation has been limited…

We theoretically demonstrate the possibility of generating a spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) beam in a dielectric slab waveguide. The STOV is generated upon reflection of a spatiotemporal optical pulse from an integrated…

Spin-orbital coupling and interaction as intrinsic light fields characteristics have been extensively studied. Previous studies involve the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried by circular polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jian Chen , Lihua Yu , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan

Vortices are whirling disturbances commonly found in nature ranging from tremendously small scales in Bose-Einstein condensates to cosmologically colossal scales in spiral galaxies. An optical vortex, generally associated with a spiral…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Chenhao Wan , Jian Chen , Andy Chong , Qiwen Zhan

We report a mathematical error and a misinterpretation in arXiv:2103.03263v4 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 193901 (2021)] that has led to a debate about the nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) of spatiotemporal optical vortices…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-04 Miguel A. Porras

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are short pulses that present a vortex whose axis is perpendicular to the main propagation direction. We present analytic expressions for these pulses that satisfy exactly Maxwell's equation, by…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-05 S. Vo , R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas , M. A. Alonso

The nature of light-matter interaction is governed by the spatial-temporal structures of a light field and material wavefunctions. The emergence of the light beam with transverse phase vortex, or equivalently orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) are of rapidly growing interest for the field of optics due to the new degree of freedom that can be exploited. In this paper, we propose cylindrical…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-21 Jian Chen , Pengkun Zheng , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan