Recent advances in generation and detection of orbital angular momentum optical beams—a review

DM Fatkhiev, MA Butt, EP Grakhova, RV Kutluyarov… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Herein, we have discussed three major methods which have been generally employed for
the generation of optical beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM). These methods …

Phase singularities and optical vortices in photonics

AP Porfirev, AA Kuchmizhak, SO Gurbatov… - Phys. Usp, 2022 - ufn.ru
Since the second half of the 20th century, ideas to develop methods for the formation of
optical vortices (OVs) or OV beams–regions of circular motion of energy flow in an …

Versatile on-chip light coupling and (de) multiplexing from arbitrary polarizations to controlled waveguide modes using an integrated dielectric metasurface

Y Meng, Z Liu, Z Xie, R Wang, T Qi, F Hu, H Kim… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces have found broad applicability in free-space optics, while its potential to tailor
guided waves remains barely explored. By synergizing the Jones matrix model with …

On-chip orbital angular momentum modes generator and (de) multiplexer based on trench silicon waveguides

S Zheng, J Wang - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Based on an integrated silicon platform, we present an ultracompact structure to generate
optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, where only a waveguide with a specially …

Horn antennas for generating radio waves bearing orbital angular momentum by using spiral phase plate

W Wei, K Mahdjoubi, C Brousseau… - IET Microwaves …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The design of two new horn antennas for the generation of radio waves bearing orbital
angular momentum (OAM) is presented. The OAM mode ℓ= 1 or− 1 is generated by …

A grating coupler design for optical vortex mode generation in rectangular waveguides

DM Fatkhiev, VS Lyubopytov… - IEEE Photonics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and numerically verify a design approach to a grating coupler (GC) for in-plane
generation and propagation of quasi-TE vortex modes with azimuthal order±1 within …

Integrated photonic emitter with a wide switching range of orbital angular momentum modes

Y Wang, P Zhao, X Feng, Y Xu, K Cui, F Liu, W Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Due to the nature of infinite dimensionality, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been
considered as a new degree of freedom of light and widely expanded the scopes of …

[HTML][HTML] Design and modeling of a photonic integrated device for optical vortex generation in a silicon waveguide

RV Kutluyarov, DM Fatkhiev, IV Stepanov… - Компьютерная …, 2021 - cyberleninka.ru
We propose and numerically verify a design of the photonic integrated circuit for in-plane
generation of a 1st azimuthal order vortex mode in dielectric rectangular waveguides …

Compact high-efficiency four-mode vortex beam generator within the telecom C-band

Y Zhu, H Tan, N Zhou, L Chen, J Wang, X Cai - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum have attracted a great deal of attention
over the past few years. An integrated vortex beam generator with high efficiency is …

Investigating orbital angular momentum modes in multimode interference (MMI) waveguides and revealing their mode conversion property

A Soltani, SF Mousavi, ZH Firouzeh… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In this work, the propagation of OAM modes in multimode interference (MMI) waveguides, as
the basic elements in many integrated optical devices, is studied to utilize their benefits in …