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We present a comprehensive review on the geometric-phase based metasurfaces for orbital angular momentum(OAM) generation and detection. These metasurfaces manipulate the electromagnetic (EM) wave by introducing abrupt phase change, which is…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-12 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

Over the past decade, optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes were shown to offer advantages in optical information acquisition. Here, we introduce a new scheme for optical ranging in which depth is estimated through the angular…

We consider recently introduced self-focusing fields that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) [Opt. Lett. $\textbf{46}$, 2384$-$2387 (2021)] and in particular, their propagation properties through a turbulent ocean. We show that this type…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-12 Meilan Luo , Matias Koivurova , Marco Ornigotti , Chaoliang Ding

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

The physics of orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light has been well-defined since the 1990s. Leveraging its physical phenomena has become a significant focus in various areas of research. For instance, OAM is applied in hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-08 Junsu Kim , Jiyeon Baek , Hyunchae Chun , Seung Ryong Park

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has recently attracted a growing interest as a new degree of freedom in order to increase the information capacity of today optical networks both for free-space and optical fiber transmission.…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Gianluca Ruffato , Michele Massari , Filippo Romanato

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum are key resources in modern photonics. In many applications, the ability of measuring the complex spectrum of structured light beams in terms of these fundamental modes is crucial. Here we…

Optical turbulence, driven by fluctuations of the atmospheric refractive index, poses a significant challenge to ground-based optical systems, as it distorts the propagation of light. This degradation affects both astronomical observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Mary Joe Medlej , Rahul Srinivasan , Simon Prunet , Aziz Ziad , Christophe Giordano

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However, the spatio-temporal coherence of the light source has been…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is a promising degree of freedom for high-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD). However, effectively mitigating the adverse effects of atmospheric turbulence is a persistent challenge in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Jiapeng Zhao , Yiyu Zhou , Boris Braverman , Cong Liu , Kai Pang , Nicholas K. Steinhoff , Glenn A. Tyler , Alan E. Willner , Robert W. Boyd

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

Optical vortices are currently one of the most intensively studied topics in optics. These light beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), have been successfully utilized in the visible and infrared in a wide variety of…

Monitoring the evolution of the anthropogenic light emissions is a priority task in light pollution research. Among the complementary approaches that can be adopted to achieve this goal stand out those based on measuring the direct radiance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Salvador Bará

We for the first time report the truncated diffraction with a triangular aperture of the SU(2) geometric modes and propose a method to detect the complicated orbital angular momentum (OAM) of an SU(2) wave-packet, to the best of our…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yijie Shen , Xing Fu , Mali Gong

Optical interferometry has dramatically advanced the development of modern science and technology. Here we introduce an interesting centroid evolution phenomenon of orbital angular momentum (OAM) interference fields with broken rotational…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-29 Liang Fang , Jinman Chen , Qinjun Chen , Chujun Zhao

The fundamental mode of rotation in quantum fluids is given by a vortex, whose quantized value yields the orbital angular momentum (OAM) per particle. If the vortex is displaced (off-centered) from the reference point for rotation, the…

Quantum key distribution (QKD) employed orbital angular momentum (OAM) for high-dimensional encoding enhances the system security and information capacity between two communication parties. However, such advantages significantly degrade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Zhiwei Tao , Yichong Ren , Azezigul Abdukirim , Shiwei Liu , Ruizhong Rao

It has been known for a century that electromagnetic fields can transport not only energy and linear momentum but also angular momentum. However, it was not until twenty years ago, with the discovery in laser optics of experimental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Bo Thidé , Fabrizio Tamburini , Elettra Mari , Filippo Romanato , Cesare Barbieri

For high contrast imaging systems, the time delay is one of the major limiting factors for the performance of the extreme adaptive optics (AO) sub-system and, in turn, the final contrast. The time delay is due to the finite time needed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-08 Maaike van Kooten , Niek Doelman , Matthew Kenworthy

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…