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We demonstrate the controlled spatiotemporal transfer of transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) to electromagnetic waves: the spatiotemporal torquing of light. This is a radically different situation than OAM transfer to longitudinal,…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-14 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , A. Goffin , H. M. Milchberg

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

We identify a class of modal solutions for spatio-temporal optical vortex (STOV) electromagnetic pulses propagating in dispersive media with orbital angular momentum (OAM) orthogonal to propagation. We find that symmetric STOVs in vacuum…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-10 S. W. Hancock , S. Zahedpour , H. M. Milchberg

Despite extensive exploration of acoustic vortices carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), the generation of acoustic vortices with OAM orientations beyond the conventional longitudinal direction remains largely unexplored. Spatiotemporal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Shuai Liu , Hao Ge , Xiang-Yuan Xu , Yuan Sun , Xiao-Ping Liu , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Advances in the generation and the application of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV) are proceeding fast, but fundamental aspects of their nature remain obscure. Phys. Rev. A 107, L031501 (2023) (PRA) and Prog. Electromagn. Res. 177, 95…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Miguel A. Porras

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

Recently, photons have been observed to possess transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM); however, it is unclear as whether they can hold a transverse OAM higher than 1. Here, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that high-order…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-13 Wei Chen , Wang Zhang , Yuan Liu , Fan-Chao Meng , John M. Dudley , Yan-Qing Lu

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

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

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

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

The degrees of freedom inherent in spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV's) afford intriguing opportunties to manipulate complex light fields for broad applications such as optical communication, light-matter interactions, particle…

The propagation properties and the nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (t-OAM) of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) open new scenarios in high-harmonic generation (HHG), where the richness of the topological charge and…

Spatiotemporal toroidal orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams are a developing class of spatiotemporal beams which have key applications within quantum physics, metrology, imaging and optical manipulation. However, the full realization of…

In structured light with controllable degrees of freedom (DoFs), the vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) give access to provide additional degrees of freedom for information transfer, and in classic field, the propagation…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-16 Minhui Xiong , Ren Wang , Qinyu Zhou , Bing-Zhong Wang

Diffraction of a relativistically-strong light can produce high-order harmonics via the relativistic oscillating window mechanism. In this process, the characteristics of the 2D electron dynamics at the diffraction screen can be imprinted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Ke Hu , Xinju Guo , Longqing Yi

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

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carry transverse orbital angular momentum within the space-time domain, rendering them powerful tools for constructing high-dimensional and quantum optical fields. However, most existing approaches…

Orbital angular momentums (OAMs) of light can be categorized into longitudinal OAM (L-OAM) and transverse OAM (T-OAM). Light carrying time-varying L-OAM, known as self-torqued light, was recently discovered during harmonic generation and…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-30 Xin Liu , Chunhao Liang , Qian Cao , Yangjian Cai , Qiwen Zhan

The interaction of light with matter serves as a fundamental tool for probing material properties across a wide range of energy regimes. Recent breakthroughs in tailoring the topology of coherent electromagnetic fields have opened new…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-31 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , M. F. Ciappina , W. Gao