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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

In fluids, vortices form at boundaries between flows of different velocities. Here, we show that pulsed electromagnetic waves form spatiotemporal vortices when light straddles media of different phase velocities. When the resulting relative…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jordan M. Adams , Daniel Heligman , Rajind Mendis , Josh Wetherington

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) is a unique optical vortex with phase singularity in the space-time domain and the photons in a STOV can carry transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM). The STOV shows many fantastic properties which…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-01 Shunlin Huang , Peng Wang , Xiong Shen , Jun Liu , Ruxin Li

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) enriches the family of vortex beams and exhibit unique properties. Typically, a high-order STOV with an intensity null degrades into multiple…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Shunlin Huang , Xiong Shen , Renjing Chen , Jun Liu , Ruxin Li

We confirm the existence of a new bulk medium quasiparticle with transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) and elucidate its physical origin. The tOAM structure is driven by torques induced by the ponderomotive force of the light in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. S. Le , S. W. Hancock , N. Tripathi , H. M. Milchberg

The non-intuitive spatiotemporal modal content of space-time optical vortices (STOVs) is calculated in a graded-index fiber supporting a large number of propagating modes. We discuss how a fiber supporting many modes allows to truly couple…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-03 Spencer W. Jolly , Julien Dechanxhe , Pascal Kockaert

Spatiotemporal optical vortex (STOV) with transverse orbital angular momentum (TOAM) can induce some novel properties in high energy density physics. However, the current STOV pulse energy is limited to the mJ level, which greatly hinders…

Vortex dynamics are intriguing and challenging across multiple physics fields. In optics, customized spatiotemporally structured optical fields, especially spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV), offer the potential to tailor light via…

Vortex solitons (dark solitons) are described in self-defocusing Kerr media whose phase line singularity is not parallel to the propagation direction, but is perpendicular or tilted almost arbitrary angles, depending on the medium linear…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Miguel A. Porras

We experimentally demonstrate how spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) control long-range atmospheric filamentation of intense laser pulses. High-power pulses long enough to overlap with the delayed rotational nonlinearity of air…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-11 A. Goffin , L. Railing , G. Babic , H. M. Milchberg

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

The transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) has been a topic of active debate in recent years. Previous studies, relying on narrowband and paraxial approximations, resulted in unprecedented…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jordan Adams , Youngbin Park , Andy Chong

A focusing system such as a single lens or a spherical mirror imparts intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) to spatiotemporal (ST) coupled fields the ST intensity distribution of which presents ST covariance. This fact may…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-28 Miguel A. Porras , Spencer W. Jolly

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

Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum were generated experimentally [{\it Optica} {\bf 6}, 1547 (2019); {\it Nat. Photon.} {\bf 14}, 350 (2020)]. However, an accurate…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

The recent paper Phys. Rev. X. 14, 011031 (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.01019) includes an appendix that casts doubts on the validity the theory of the transverse orbital angular momentum of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) in…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-19 Miguel A. Porras

The dynamics of short intense electromagnetic pulses propagating in a relativistic pair plasma with small temperature asymmetry is of current interest. Such pulses were shown to be governed by a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Luciano Medina

Spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) are localized solitary waves in both space and time that involve complex linear and nonlinear processes. Optical STSs have been observed in various media, but they are difficult to be realized in multimode…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-20 Yao Wang , Shuo Yan , Jianqiu Xu , Yulong Tang

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

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