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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

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 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…

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 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,…

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 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

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 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

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

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 (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…

Optical spatiotemporal vortices with transverse photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently become a focal point of research. In this work we theoretically and experimentally investigate optical spatiotemporal vortices with radial…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-26 Xin Liu , Qian Cao , Nianjia Zhang , Andy Chong , Yangjian Cai , Qiwen Zhan

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) are short pulses that present a vortex whose axis is perpendicular to the main propagation direction. We present analytic expressions for these pulses that satisfy exactly Maxwell's equation, by…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-05 S. Vo , R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas , M. A. Alonso

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…

Spatiotemporal vortex pulses are wave packets that carry transverse orbital angular momentum, exhibiting exotic structured wavefronts that can twist through space and time. Existing methods to generate these pulses require complex setups…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Che , Wenzhe Liu , Lei Shi , C. T. Chan , Jian Zi

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

Recent theoretical and experimental studies revealed spatiotemporal photonic, and acoustic, vortex beams in open space. The spatiotemporal vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum perpendicular to the wave propagation direction. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Muyang Xie , Chenchen Liu , Jian Huang , Zhenyu Wang , Xinwei Dong , Ruifang Wang

Vortices in fluids and gases have piqued the interest of human for centuries. Development of classical-wave physics and quantum mechanics highlighted wave vortices characterized by phase singularities and topological charges. In particular,…

Recently nonlocal spatial-mirror-symmetry-breaking metasurfaces have been proposed to generate spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs), which carry transverse orbital angular momenta. Here we investigate the topological property of the STOV…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Junyi Huang , Hongliang Zhang , Tengfeng Zhu , Zhichao Ruan
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