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We report the use of an electrostatic MEMS-based device to produce high quality electron vortex beams with more than 1000 quanta of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Diffraction and off-axis electron holography experiments are used to show…

Angular momentum plays a central role in a multitude of phenomena in quantum mechanics, recurring in every length scale from the microscopic interactions of light and matter to the macroscopic behavior of superfluids. Vortex beams, carrying…

Twisted photons carrying orbital angular momentum, which have potential applications spanning diverse fields, have been extensively studied since the theoretical work of Allen \textit{et al}. in 1992. Various methods for direct producing…

We use numerical simulations to demonstrate that a source of bright collimated vortex $\gamma$-ray with large orbital angular momentum can be achieved by irradiating a circularly polarized laser with an intensity about…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Cui-Wen Zhang , Mamat-Ali Bake , Hong Xiao , Hai-Bo Sang , Bai-Song Xie

In the present study, we show calculation of nonlinear Compton scattering with circularly polarized photons in a cylindrical coordinate using Feynman diagram to calculate photon vortex generation in intermediate states considering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Tomoyuki Maruyama , Takehito Hayakawa , Ryoichi Hajima , Toshitaka Kajino , Myung-Ki Cheoun

Vortices are ubiquitous in nature and can be observed in fluids, condensed matter, and even in the formation of galaxies. Light, too, can evolve like a vortex. Optical vortices are exploited in light-matter interaction, free-space…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-26 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Alfonso Palmieri , Lisa Li , Federico Capasso

We explore photon vortex generation in synchrotron radiations from a spiral moving electron under a uniform magnetic field along z-axis using Landau quantization. The obtained wave-function of the photon vortecies is the eigen-state of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 Tomoyuki Maruyama , Takehito Hayakawa , Toshitaka Kajino , Myung-Ki Cheoun

Light is extensively used to steer the motion of atoms in free space, enabling cooling and trapping of matter waves through ponderomotive forces and Doppler-mediated photon scattering. Likewise, light interaction with free electrons has…

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical fields can produce free-electron compression and push the temporal resolution of ultrafast electron microscopy to the attosecond regime. However, a large electron-light interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Cruz I. Velasco , F. Javier García de Abajo

Photons carry one unit of angular momentum associated with their spin~\cite{Beth1936}. Structured vortex beams carry additional orbital angular momentum which can also be transferred to matter~\cite{Allen1992}. This extra twist has been…

With the increasing demand for potential applications in almost all fields in modern optics, the generation of vortex beams has attracted significant interest. Based on a flat plate made of electro-optical crystals, we propose an…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yuting Fana , Enxu Zhua , Chaoying Zhaoa

The equations providing to describe generation process in FEL with varied parameters of diffraction grating (photonic crystal) are obtained. It is shown that applying diffraction gratings (photonic crystal) with the variable period one can…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Baryshevsky , A. A. Gurinovich

Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing $\gamma$-rays. This is what linear Compton scattering taught us. Ultra-intense lasers offer nowadays…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Sebastian Meuren , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

We introduce a simple and practical method to create ultrashort intense optical vortices for applications involving high-intensity lasers. Our method utilizes femtosecond laser pulses to laser-etch grating lines into laser-quality gold…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Strohaber , T. Scarborough , C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal

We propose a scheme for generating high-mass quantum superposition states of an optically pre-cooled, levitated nanoparticle through electron diffraction at its sub-nanometer crystal lattice. When a single electron undergoes Bragg…

Recent developments in the understanding of optical angular momentum have resulted in many demonstrations of unusual optical phenomena, such as optical beams with orbital angular momentum and transverse spinning light. Here we detail novel…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-05 Kayn A. Forbes , Vittorio Aita , Anatoly V. Zayats

Compton scattering of photons off high-energy electrons is a fundamental quantum mechanical process widely utilized to produce a $\gamma$-ray beam for scientific research. Instead of injecting laser light into a storage ring as a…

A method to generate the optical vortex beam with arbitrary superposition of different orders of orbital angular momentum (OAM) on a photonic chip is proposed. The distributed Fourier holographic gratings are proposed to convert the…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Aiping Liu , Chang-Ling Zou , Xifeng Ren , Wen He , Mengze Wu , Guangcan Guo , Qin Wang

We present a novel proposal to generate an optical vortex beam by using the coherent-superposition of multi-beams in a radial symmetrical configuration. In terms of the generalized Huygens-Fresnel diffraction integral, we have derived the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Li-Qin Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

The orbital angular momentum of an optical vortex field is found to twist high viscosity donor material to form a micron-scale 'spin jet'. This unique phenomenon manifests the helical trajectory of the optical vortex. Going beyond both the…