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The waveguide-integrated metasurface introduces a novel photonic chip capable of converting guided modes into free-space light. This enables functions such as off-chip beam focusing, steering, and imaging. The challenge lies in achieving…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-03 Xianjin Liu , Zhanying Ma , Dasen Zhang , Qiwen Bao , Zhenzhen Liu , Jun-Jun Xiao

To manipulate orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by light beams, there is a great interest in designing various optical elements from the deep-ultraviolet to the microwave. Normally, the OAM variation introduced by optical elements can…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-31 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Yidong Huang

Metasurfaces are optically thin metamaterials that promise complete control of the wavefront of light but are primarily used to control only the phase of light. Here, we present an approach, simple in concept and in practice, that uses…

Light's orbital angular momentum (OAM) is an unbounded degree of freedom emerging in helical beams that appears very advantageous technologically. Using a chiral microlaser, i.e. an integrated device that allows generating an emission…

We propose a scheme to controllably convert the wavefront of an arbitrary incident beam into a helical one by compact transformation slabs, thus enabling the output beam to carry desirable orbital angular momentum (OAM). First, based on…

Simultaneous, diffraction-limited control of multiple optical beams is crucial for applications ranging from lithography to optogenetics, deep tissue imaging, and tweezer-based manipulation of cells, particles, or atoms. Despite the desire…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-14 Ian Christen , Christopher Panuski , Thomas Propson , Dirk Englund

Harnessing the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light is an appealing approach to developing photonic technologies for future applications in optical communications and high- dimensional Quantum Key Distributions (QKD). An outstanding…

Optical multiplexing is a key technique that enhances the capacity of optical systems by independently modulating various optical parameters to carry distinct information. Among these parameters, wavelength, polarization, and angle are the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-20 Rui Wei , Hongsheng Shi , Boyou Wang , Baojun Li , Yanjun Bao

The multiplexing and de-multiplexing of orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams are critical issues in optical communication. Optical diffractive neural networks have been introduced to perform classification, generation, multiplexing and…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Jiaqi Zhang , Zhiyuan Ye , Jianhua Yin , Liying Lang , Shuming Jiao

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a promising degree of freedom for quantum communication and quantum computation. However, efficient methods to transform and measure OAM modes are still not available readily. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Joel M. Sunil , Sandeep K. Goyal

Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM), as an important degree of freedom of light, has been attracted extensive attention, due to its intrinsic feature of natural discrete infinite dimension. Manipulation of OAM spectra is crucial for many…

Nonlinear metasurface holography shows the great potential of metasurfaces to control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light while simultaneously converting the frequency of the light. The possibility of tailoring the scattering…

This paper presents the design, simulation, and experimental verification of a flexible thin-film conformal metasurface for backscattering control via orbital angular momentum (OAM) wave generation in the X-band (9.5-10.5 GHz). The…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Yury M. Meleshin , Maxim V. Azarov , Artem A. Airapetian , Konstantin S. Lyalin

All-optical image processing offers a high-speed, energy-efficient alternative to conventional electronic systems by leveraging the wave nature of light for parallel computation. However, traditional optical processors rely on bulky…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Linzhi Yu , Haobijam J. Singh , Jesse Pietila , Humeyra Caglayan

A matrix representation is introduced for stationary beam-like light fields that allows for simultaneous treatment of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the second-order state of spatial coherence. This Coherence-OAM matrix is a…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 Olga Korotkova , Greg Gbur

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…

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Cutting-edge quantum technologies lean on sources of high-dimensional entangled states (HDES) that reliably prepare high-fidelity target states. The idea to overlap photon paths from distinct but indistinguishable sources was recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Richard Bernecker , Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Stephan Fritzsche

Sparse Aperture Masking (SAM) allows for high-contrast imaging at small inner working angles, however the performance is limited by the small throughput and the number of baselines. We present the concept and first lab results of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-03 David S. Doelman , Peter Tuthill , Barnaby Norris , Michael J. Wilby , Emiel H. Por , Christoph U. Keller , Michael J. Escuti , Frans Snik

The recently proposed extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum (OAM) realized by high-harmonic generation (HHG) provides extraordinary tools for quantum excitation control and particle manipulation.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Jingxin Zhang , Peixing Li , Alex M H Wong , Jensen Li

Hybrid entangled states exhibit entanglement between different degrees of freedom of a particle pair and thus could be useful for asymmetric optical quantum network where the communication channels are characterized by different properties.…

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