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Plasmonic Optical matter (OM), composed of optically bound metallic particles, can be rotated by transferring the spin angular momentum (SAM) of chiral light to the assembly. Rotating OM is a promising platform for optical micromachines,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ashutosh Shukla , Sneha Boby , Rahul Chand , G. V. Pavan Kumar

Waves of various types carry momentum, which is associated with their propagation direction, i.e., the phase gradient. The circulation of the wave momentum density gives rise to orbital angular momentum (AM). Additionally, for waves…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

A quasi-continuous composite perfect electric conductor-perfect magnetic conductor metasurface and a systematic metasurface design process are proposed for the orbital angular momentum (OAM) generation. The metasurfaces reflect the incident…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha

The investigation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of delocalised Bloch electrons has advanced our understanding of magnetic, transport, and optical phenomena in crystals, drawing widespread interest across various materials science…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Amit Agarwal , Dimitrie Culcer

The problem of light waves interaction with charged particles becomes more and more complex starting with the case of plane waves, where the analytical solution is well known, to more natural, though more complicated situations which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Egor Dmitriev , Philipp Korneev

Using orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the terahertz (THz) range provides a new degree of freedom for communication and imaging systems. This study presents a compact diffractive optical neural network designed to recognize discrete and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wei Jia , Miguel Gomez , Steve Blair , Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Optical angular momentum (OAM) in light beams is manifested as the two-dimensional spatial distribution of its complex amplitude, necessitating a 2D detector for its measurement. Here we present a novel speckle-based machine learning…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-19 Vijay Kumar , Purnesh Singh Badavath

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…

Production and manipulation of orbital angular momentum (OAM) of coherent soft x-ray beams is demonstrated utilizing consecutive diffractive optics. OAM addition is observed upon passing the beam through consecutive fork gratings. The OAM…

Recently, orbital-textures have been found in Rashba and topological insulator (TI) surface states as a result of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we predict a $p_x/p_y$ orbital texture, in linear dispersive Dirac bands, arising at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Felipe Crasto de Lima , Gerson J. Ferreira , Roberto H. Miwa

Context. Wavelength, photon spin angular momentum (PSAM), and photon orbital angular momentum (POAM), completely describe the state of a photon or an electric field (an ensemble of photons). Wavelength relates directly to energy and linear…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicholas M. Elias

Tunable orbit angular momentum (OAM) of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is theoretically studied with appropriately designed metasurfaces. By controlling both the orientation angle and spatial position of nano aperture array on an…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Qilong Tan , Qinghua Guo , Hongchao Liu , Xuguang Huang , Shuang Zhang

We present experiments on Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) induced beam shifts in optical reflection. Specifically, we observe the spatial Goos-H\"anchen shift in which the beam is displaced parallel to the plane of incidence and the angular…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-29 N. Hermosa , M. Merano , A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been shown to be of use in a disparate range of fields ranging from astronomy to optical trapping, and as a promising new dimension for multiplexing signals in optical communications and…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Shibiao Wei , Stuart K. Earl , Xiao-Cong Yuan , Shan Shan Kou , Jiao Lin

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a fundamental optical degree of freedom that has recently motivated much exciting research in diverse fields ranging from optical communication to quantum information. We show for the first time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Xi-Wang Luo , Xingxiang Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of light generated by tight focusing in optical tweezers has been regularly employed in generating angular momentum - both spin and orbital - in trapped mesoscopic particles. Specifically, the transverse…

The chiral crystal is characterized by a lack of mirror symmetry and an inversion center, resulting in the inequivalent right- and left-handed structures. In the noncentrosymmetric crystal structure, the spin and momentum of electrons are…

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a versatile degree of freedom with transformative impact across optical communication, imaging, and micromanipulation. These applications have motivated a growing demand for compact,…

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…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jing Xu , Rik Strobbe , Yovan de Coene , Renaud A. L. Vallée , Koen Clays
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