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Breaking the diffraction limit and focusing laser beams to subwavelength scale are becoming possible with the help of recent developments in plasmonics. Such subwavelength focusing bridges different length scales of laser beams and matter.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroyuki Fujita , Masahiro Sato

We consider the propagation of slow light with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a moving atomic medium. We have derived a general equation of motion and applied it in analysing propagation of slow light with an OAM in a rotating medium,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliunas , P. Ohberg , S. M. Barnett

Besides a linear momentum, optical fields carry an angular momentum (AM), which have two intrinsic components: one is spin angular momentum (SAM) related to the polarization state of the field, and the other is orbital angular momentum…

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields, especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the severely congested spectrum of commercial communication systems. Beams…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Rui Chen , Hong Zhou , Marco Moretti , Xiaodong Wang , Jiandong Li

General Relativistic calculations in the linear regime have been made for electromagnetic beams of radiation known as optical vortices. These exotic beams of light carry a physical quantity known as optical orbital angular momentum (OAM).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-03 J. Strohaber

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 theoretically study the generation of orbital angular momentum(OAM) based on four-wave mixing (FWM) process in a diamond-type inhomogeneously broadened $^{85}$Rb atomic system. We use density matrix formalism at weak probe limit to…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-10 Nawaz Sarif Mallick , Tarak Nath Dey

Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have gained significant interest due to their unique properties, enhancing various communication systems and enabling applications such as the characterization of material or molecular…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-18 Ju-Young Kim , Minhaeng Cho

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

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

Optical fields with orbital angular momentum (OAM) interact with medium have many remarkable properties with its unique azimuthal phase, showing many potential applications in high capacity information processing, high precision measurement…

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

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

Light beams with azimuthal phase dependence [$exp(i \ell\phi)$] carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) which differs fundamentally from spin angular momentum (SAM) associated with polarization. Striking difference between the two momenta is…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Mo Mojahedi

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 provides an unbounded set of orthogonal modes for ultrahigh-capacity optical information processing. However, current OAM detection schemes typically rely on light interference or diffraction,…

Vortices are topologically stable singularities at the center of a swirl of energy. Optical vortices are conventionally formed using diffractive optics or by bespoke optical elements. We report room temperature integrated lasers directly…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-29 B. Bahari , L. -Y. Hsu , S. H. Pan , D. Preece , A. Ndao , A. El Amili , Y. Fainman , B. Kanté

The expression for the total angular momentum carried by a laser optical vortex beam, splits, in the paraxial approximation, into two terms which seem to represent orbital and spin angular momentum respectively. There are, however, two very…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 Elliot Leader

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

Fundamental and applied concepts concerning the ability of light beams to carry a certain mechanical angular momentum with respect to the propagation axis are reviewed and discussed. Following issues are included: Historical reference;…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-13 A. Bekshaev , M. Soskin , M. Vasnetsov