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Understanding the scattering properties of various media is of critical importance in many applications, from secure, high-bandwidth communications to extracting information about biological and mineral particles dissolved in sea water. In…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-05 Duncan McArthur , Alison Yao , Francesco Papoff

Using no conventional measurements in position space, information extraction rates exceeding one bit per photon are achieved by employing high-dimensional correlated orbital angular momentum (OAM) states for object recognition. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Casey A. Fitzpatrick , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

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 developed a method to characterize arbitrary superpositions of light orbital angular momentum (OAM) with high fidelity by using astigmatic tomography and machine learning processing. In order to define each superposition unequivocally,…

The transverse spatial modes of light offer a large state-space with interesting physical properties. For exploiting it in future long-distance experiments, spatial modes will have to be transmitted over turbulent free-space links. Numerous…

We demonstrate high-fidelity detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light using a compact and practical OAM spectrometer that maps the OAM spectrum to time. The spectrometer consists of a single optical delay loop to achieve…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-14 Paul Bierdz , Minho Kwon , Connor Roncaioli , Hui Deng

The high-dimensional basis of orbital angular momentum (OAM) has several added and unique advantages for photonics quantum technologies compared to the polarization basis, which is only two-dimensional. However, one of the major roadblocks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Suman Karan , Martin P. Van Exter , Anand K. Jha

We report on an imaging-inspired measurement of orbital angular momentum (OAM) using only a simple tilted lens and an Intensified Charged Coupled Device (ICCD) camera, allowing us to monitor the propagation of OAM structured photons over…

We demonstrate a novel detection scheme for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light using circular plasmonic lens. Owing to a division-of-amplitude interference phenomenon between the surface plasmon waves and directly transmitted…

We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a method for measuring at the same time the mean and the variance of the photonic orbital angular momentum (OAM) distribution in any paraxial optical field, without passing through the acquisition…

Vortex light, a unique optical field that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a detailed theoretical analysis of OAM transfer from the input field to the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fan Meng , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

Fractional-order vortex beams possess fractional orbital angular momentum (FOAM) modes, which theoretically have the potential to increase transmission capacity infinitely. Therefore, they have significant application prospects in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-24 Yan Guo , Heng Lyu , Chunling Ding , Chenzhi Yuan , Ruibo Jin

Various methods have been introduced to measure the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, from fork holograms to Dove prism interferometers, from tilted lenses to triangular apertures - each with their own benefits and limitations. Here…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) possess an unbounded set of orthogonal modes, offering significant potential for optical communication and security. However, exploiting OAM beams in space has been hindered by the lack of…

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…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM), a topological degree of freedom of light, is theoretically invariant under continuous deformations; yet, its physical observability degrades precipitously in complex media, creating a fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-06 Shuailing Wang , Jingping Xu , Yaping Yang

We present an approach for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light tailored towards applications in spectroscopy and non-integer OAM values. It is based on the OAM sorting method (Berkhout et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153601…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bernd Berger , Marius Kahlert , Daniel Schmidt , Marc Aßmann

Perfect (optical) vortices (PVs) have the mooted ability to encode orbital angular momentum (OAM) onto the field within a well-defined annular ring. Although this makes the near-field radial profile independent of OAM, the far-field radial…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jonathan Pinnell , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Andrew Forbes

We develop a weak measurement scheme for measuring orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light based on the global topology in wave function. We introduce the spin-orbit coupling to transform the measurement of OAM to the pre- and postselected…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Junfan Zhu , An Wang , Yurong Liu , Fuhua Gao , Zhiyou Zhang

In recent times the spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light have gained prominence because of their significance in optical communication systems, micromanipulation, sub-wavelength position sensing. To this…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-24 Diptabrata Paul , Deepak K Sharma , G V Pavan Kumar