Orbital angular momentum lasers

A Forbes, L Mkhumbuza, L Feng - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Light can be tailored to carry angular momentum well beyond the restriction of its two spin
states, left-and right-circularly polarized light, by imbuing it with orbital angular momentum …

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 …

Generating High‐Charge Optical Vortices Directly from Laser Up to 288th Order

Z Qiao, G Xie, Y Wu, P Yuan, J Ma… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐charge optical vortices, every photon of which carries an orbital angular momentum
with a large quantum number, are ideal sources for testing macroscopic quantum …

[PDF][PDF] 涡旋光激光器研究进展

刘俊, 王健 - Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2022 - researching.cn
摘要涡旋光是一种横向空间分布的特殊光场, 包括相位涡旋光和偏振涡旋光,
被广泛应用于天文学, 光学操控, 显微镜, 成像, 传感, 量子科学和光通信等领域. 目前 …

Direct generation of an optical vortex beam in a single-frequency Nd:YVO4 laser

DJ Kim, JW Kim - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
A simple method for generating a Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) mode optical vortex beam with
well-determined handedness in a single-frequency solid state laser end-pumped by a ring …

Wavelength-versatile optical vortex lasers

T Omatsu, K Miyamoto, AJ Lee - Journal of Optics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The unique properties of optical vortex beams, in particular their spiral wavefront, have
resulted in the emergence of a wide range of unique applications for this type of laser output …

Aberration-induced vortex splitting in amplified orbital angular momentum beams

J Harrison, WT Buono, A Forbes, D Naidoo - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Here we report the generation and power amplification of higher-order (l= 2) orbital angular
momentum (OAM) beams using a compact end-pumped Nd: YAG Master-Oscillator-Power …

Generation and expansion of Laguerre–Gaussian beams

Y Yang, Y Li, C Wang - Journal of Optics, 2022 - Springer
Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beams are typical vortex beams with orbital angular momentum
(OAM), spiral wavefront phase, and donut-shaped intensity distribution. They are widely …

Diode-pumped Alexandrite lasers in Q-switched and cavity-dumped Q-switched operation

GM Thomas, A Minassian, X Sheng, MJ Damzen - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present the first study of Q-switched Alexandrite lasers under continuous-wave diode-
pumping with operation up to 10 kHz repetition rates in TEM_00, with spatial quality M^ 2 …

Comprehensive investigation on producing high-power orbital angular momentum beams by coherent combining technology

D Zhi, T Hou, P Ma, Y Ma, P Zhou, R Tao… - High Power Laser …, 2019 - cambridge.org
High-power orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams have distinct advantages in improving
capacity and data receiving for free-space optical communication systems at long distances …