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We introduce a new method to generate and tune the optical orbital angular momentum of a focused Gaussian beam passing through the optical superlattice under the electro-optic effect. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) arises from the curl…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jie Wang , Jianhong Shi , Linghao Tian , Xianfeng Chen

We demonstrate spin polarized jets in extended systems of ballistic exciton-polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities using optical non-resonant excitation geometries. The structure of the spin jets is determined by the digitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lucinda Pickup , Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

As one fundamental property of light, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon has elicited widespread interest. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that the OAM conversion of light without any spin state can occur in homogeneous and…

Exciton-polaritons flows within closed quantum circuits can spontaneously form phase-locked modes that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). With its infinite set of angular momentum quantum numbers, high-order OAM represents a…

Dirac vortices, originally studied in quantum field theories to predict localized zero-energy modes, were recently realized in photonics, leading to Dirac vortex cavities. With topological protection, Dirac vortex cavities offer robust…

X-ray vortices carrying tunable Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) are an emerging tool for X-ray characterization technology. However, in contrast to the generation of vortex beams in the visible wavelength region, the generation of X-ray…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Nanshun Huang , Haixiao Deng

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…

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral quasiparticles that show promise for future spintronic applications such as skyrmion racetrack memories and logic devices because of their topological stability, small size (typically $\sim3-500$ nm), and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Wenrui Yang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Orbital angular momentum is a fundamental degree of freedom of light that manifests itself even at the single photon level. The coherent generation and beaming of structured light usually requires bulky and slow components. Using wave…

We describe a novel approach for generating light beams that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) by means of total internal reflection in an isotropic medium. A continuous space-varying cylindrically symmetric reflector, in the form of…

Today, it is well known that light possesses a linear momentum which is along the propagation direction. Besides, scientists also discovered that light can possess an angular momentum (AM), a spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Andy Chong , Chenhao Wan , Jian Chen , Qiwen Zhan

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been shown to be of use in a disparate range of fields ranging from astronomy to optical trapping, and as a promising new dimension for multiplexing signals in optical communications and…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Shibiao Wei , Stuart K. Earl , Xiao-Cong Yuan , Shan Shan Kou , Jiao Lin

The frequency and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are independent physical properties of light that both offer unbounded degrees of freedom. However, creating, processing, and detecting high-dimensional OAM states have been a pivot and…

A new physical mechanism to achieve spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion based on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized (CP) laser beam with a plane foil is presented and studied for the first time. It has been verified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Shasha Li , Xiaomei Zhang , Weifeng Gong , Zhigang Bu , Baifei Shen

Analytical forms of the optical helicity and optical chirality of monochromatic Laguerre-Gaussian optical vortex beams are derived up to second order in the paraxial parameter $kw_0$. We show that input linearly polarised optical vortices…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-08 Kayn A. Forbes , Garth A. Jones

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)…

The controlled fabrication and chiroptical characterization of microscale chiral structures remain central challenges in photonics, sensing, and metamaterial engineering. Here we demonstrate an accessible, low-cost platform that combines…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jing Xu , Rik Strobbe , Yovan de Coene , Renaud A. L. Vallée , Koen Clays

The interaction between circularly polarized (CP) light and matter is governed by two fundamental quantities: spin angular momentum (SAM) and optical chirality (OC). While these quantities are inseparable in free space, they can be…

Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) can find tremendous applications in several fields. In order to apply these particular beams in photonic integrated devices innovative optical elements have been proposed. Here we are…

Contrary to the optical spin angular momentum (SAM), the role played by the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light in magneto-optics remains largely unexplored. However, the SAM and OAM are known to be coupled when light interacts with…