Vortex beam: generation and detection of orbital angular momentum

Y Bai, H Lv, X Fu, Y Yang - Chinese Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Recent advances in the research of vortex beams, structured beams carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM), have revolutionized the applications of light beams, such as advanced …

Electron-driven photon sources for correlative electron-photon spectroscopy with electron microscopes

J Christopher, M Taleb, A Maity, M Hentschel… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Electron beams in electron microscopes are efficient probes of optical near-fields, thanks to
spectroscopy tools like electron energy-loss spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence …

Manipulation of orbital-angular-momentum spectrum using pinhole plates

Y Yang, Q Zhao, L Liu, Y Liu, C Rosales-Guzmán… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has attracted a great amount of interest in
recent times, due to the wide variety of applications it has made possible. Generally, the …

Ultrathin wide-angle large-area digital 3D holographic display using a non-periodic photon sieve

J Park, KR Lee, YK Park - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Holographic displays can provide a 3D visual experience to multiple users without requiring
special glasses. By precisely tailoring light fields, holographic displays could resemble …

Direct imaging of a digital-micromirror device for configurable microscopic optical potentials

G Gauthier, I Lenton, N McKay Parry, M Baker… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Programmable spatial light modulators have significantly advanced the configurable optical
trapping of particles. Typically, these devices are utilized in the Fourier plane of an optical …

Comparison of beam generation techniques using a phase only spatial light modulator

TW Clark, RF Offer, S Franke-Arnold, AS Arnold… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Whether in art or for QR codes, images have proven to be both powerful and efficient
carriers of information. Spatial light modulators allow an unprecedented level of control over …

High-speed spatial control of the intensity, phase and polarisation of vector beams using a digital micro-mirror device

KJ Mitchell, S Turtaev, MJ Padgett, T Čižmár… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The dynamic spatial control of light fields is essential to a range of applications, from
microscopy to optical micro-manipulation and communications. Here we describe the use of …

Efficient spatiotemporal-vortex four-wave mixing in a semiconductor nanostructure

Z Wang, Y Zhang, E Paspalakis, B Yu - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We propose a scheme to demonstrate spatiotemporal-vortex four-wave mixing (FWM) in an
asymmetric semiconductor double quantum-well nanostructure. It is found that the orbital …

Orbital-angular-momentum mode selection by rotationally symmetric superposition of chiral states with application to electron vortex beams

Y Yang, G Thirunavukkarasu, M Babiker, J Yuan - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
A general orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) mode selection principle is put forward
involving the rotationally symmetric superposition of chiral states. This principle is not only …

Generation of perfect vectorial vortex beams by employing coherent beam combining

P Ju, W Fan, W Gao, Z Li, Q Gao, G Li, X Jiang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Based on coherent beam combining, we propose a method for generating the perfect
vectorial vortex beams (VVBs) with a specially designed radial phase-locked Gaussian laser …