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We present the first experimental evidence, supported by theory and simulation, of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs). Quantized STOVs are a fundamental element of the nonlinear collapse and subsequent propagation of short optical…

Spatio-temporal optical vortices (STOVs) are a new type of optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) with optical phase circulation in space-time. In prior work [N. Jhajj et al., Phys. Rev X 6, 031037 (2016)], we demonstrated that a STOV is a…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-06 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs), as a kind of structured light pulses carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM), have recently attracted significant research interest due to their unique photonic properties. However,…

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carry transverse orbital angular momentum and offer new degrees of freedom for light-matter interactions. Yet conventional focusing of STOVs introduces spatiotemporal astigmatism: the beam diffracts…

We show that the dynamics of high-intensity laser pulses undergoing self-focused propagation in a nonlinear medium can be understood in terms of the topological constraints imposed by the formation and evolution of spatiotemporal optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-08 M. S. Le , G. A. Hine , A. Goffin , J. P. Palastro , H. M. Milchberg

We identify a class of modal solutions for spatio-temporal optical vortex (STOV) electromagnetic pulses propagating in dispersive media with orbital angular momentum (OAM) orthogonal to propagation. We find that symmetric STOVs in vacuum…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-10 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , H. M. Milchberg

Hermite-Gaussian (HG) beams are standard modes delivered by continuous or pulsed lasers systems, and pulse-front tilt is one of the most common, detrimental or beneficial, spatiotemporal couplings affecting ultrashort pulses. Combining…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-16 Miguel A. Porras , Spencer W. Jolly

Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices (STOVs) are structured electromagnetic fields propagating in free space with phase singularities in the space-time domain. Depending on the tilt of the helical phase front, STOVs can carry both longitudinal…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-26 Pronoy Das , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob

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

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

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) with spiral phase in the space-time domain, which carry intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM), introduce a new degree of freedom to light beams and exhibit unique properties. While…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-17 Shunlin Huang , Peng Wang , Yilin Xu , Jun Liu , Ruxin Li

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are a new type of intrinsic optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) structure in which the OAM vector is orthogonal to the propagation direction [Optica 6, 1547, (2019)] and the optical phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-19 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , H. M. Milchberg

Spatiotemporal vortices are polychromatic modes that intertwine orbital angular momentum (OAM) in space and time. Here we introduce a new class of such vortices, spatiotemporal plasmonic vortices (STPVs), carrying nontrivial topological…

Recently, a spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) with a transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been generated from coherent ultrafast pulses using mode-locked lasers. In contrast, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-22 Amal Mirando , Yimin Zang , Qiwen Zhan , Andy Chong

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are electromagnetic wave packets that transport a phase line singularity perpendicular to their propagation direction. We address the problem of the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) ``per…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-04 Miguel A. Porras

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

Spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs) are wavepackets that carry transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM), whose proper quantification has been the subject of recent debate. In this work, we introduce a simplified mechanical model of STVPs,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sophie Vo , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Miguel A. Alonso

We demonstrate the controlled spatiotemporal transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) to electromagnetic waves: the spatiotemporal torquing of light. This is a radically different situation than OAM transfer to longitudinal,…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-14 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

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

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…

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