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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

In this paper, we propose a method to generate Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) carrying vortex waves inside a metallic circular waveguide (CW). These waves feature ability to carry multiple orthogonal modes at the same frequency, by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Md Khadimul Islam , Arjuna Madanayake , Shubhendu Bhardwaj

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

Motivated by recent progress in the generation of optical spatiotemporal vortex pulses (STVPs), there is a theoretical discussion about the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by such pulses. Two recent works [K. Y. Bliokh,…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-20 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Spin-orbital coupling and interaction as intrinsic light fields characteristics have been extensively studied. Previous studies involve the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried by circular polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM)…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-18 Jian Chen , Lihua Yu , Chenhao Wan , Qiwen Zhan

We present a novel technique for generating beams of light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) that increases mode purity and decreases singularity splitting by orders of magnitude. This technique also works to control and mitigate beam…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 Andrew Sontag , Mehmet A. Noyan , James M. Kikkawa

Mode sorting is an essential function for optical systems exploiting the orthogonality of photonic orbital angular momentum mode space. The familiar log-polar optical transformation provides an efficient yet simple approach, however with…

A wavelength-tunable Optical Fiber Tweezer (OFT) based on a Graded Index Multimode Fiber (GIMF) with a flat endface is proposed. It is shown that the design can support a trapping position which is far from the tip of the GIMF compared with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Esmaeil Mobini , Arash Mafi

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light appears when the phase of an electromagnetic wavefront winds around its direction of propagation, also known as optical vorticity. Contrary to the binary-valued photon spin, the integer-valued optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Zuzanna Werner , Andrzej Frączak , Valtýr Kári Daníelsson , Jacek Szczytko , Barbara Piętka , Helgi Sigurðsson

Measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of vortex beams, including the magnitude and the sign, has great application prospects due to its theoretically unbounded and orthogonal modes. Here, the sign-distinguishable OAM measurement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Zhucheng Zhang , Jiancheng Pei , Yi-Ping Wang , Xiaoguang Wang

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) presents a key challenge for technology development in the coming years, requiring a $>$ $100\times$ more stable system than \textit{JWST}. WaveDriver is a concept for a laser guide star spacecraft coupled…

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

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

As the traditional resources (frequency, time, space, etc.) are efficiently utilized, it becomes more and more challenging to satisfy the ever-lasting capacity-growing and users-boosting demand in wireless networks. Recently, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-23 Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Haiyue Jing , Shanghua Gao , Hailin Zhang

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

Semiconductor lasers capable of generating a vortex beam with a specific orbital angular momentum (OAM) order are highly attractive for applications ranging from nanoparticle manipulation, imaging and microscopy to fibre and quantum…

Advanced holographic techniques are increasingly demanded for high-capacity and secure information processing. In this context, orbital angular momentum (OAM) stands out as a powerful resource for optical multiplexing, offering access to an…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-03 Joonkyo Jung , Hyeonhee Kim , Jonghwa Shin

Photons with a twisted phase front carry a quantized amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and have become important in various fields of optics, such as quantum and classical information science or optical tweezers. Because no upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Robert Fickler , Geoff T. Campbell , Ben C. Buchler , Ping Koy Lam , Anton Zeilinger

In this paper, we present an acoustic vortex filter (AVF) based on tunable metasurfaces, which can selectively filter the incident multiplexed vortices that carry different orbital angular momentum (OAM). Our metasurface-based AVF is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Liulin Li , Bingyi Liu , Zhixiang Li , Kai Guo , Zhongyi Guo

Accurately modelling orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode crosstalk in turbulent environments is challenging yet essential for developing free-space optical systems that employ OAM modes for multiplexing or diversity. Turbulence induces…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-05 Mitchell A. Cox , Steven G. Makoni , Ling Cheng