Optical spatiotemporal vortices

C Wan, A Chong, Q Zhan - eLight, 2023 - Springer
Spatiotemporal vortices of light, featuring transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) and
energy circulation in the spatiotemporal domain, have received increasing attention recently …

Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Roadmap on structured waves

KY Bliokh, E Karimi, MJ Padgett, MA Alonso… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …

Topologically crafted spatiotemporal vortices in acoustics

H Zhang, Y Sun, J Huang, B Wu, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vortices in fluids and gases have piqued the human interest for centuries. Development of
classical-wave physics and quantum mechanics highlighted wave vortices characterized by …

Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions

M Yessenov, J Free, Z Chen, EG Johnson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical wave packets that are localized in space and time, but nevertheless overcome
diffraction and travel rigidly in free space, are a long sought-after field structure with …

Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light: a tutorial

Q Zhan - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulses with sophisticated structures on demand is one
major goal of the everlasting pursuit of ultrafast information transmission and processing as …

Time diffraction-free transverse orbital angular momentum beams

W Chen, W Zhang, Y Liu, FC Meng, JM Dudley… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of optical transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) has broadened our
understanding of light and is expected to promote optics and other physics. However, some …

Spatiotemporal torquing of light

SW Hancock, S Zahedpour, A Goffin, HM Milchberg - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate the controlled spatiotemporal transfer of transverse orbital angular
momentum (OAM) to electromagnetic waves: the spatiotemporal torquing of light. This is a …

Orbital angular momentum of optical, acoustic, and quantum-mechanical spatiotemporal vortex pulses

KY Bliokh - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Motivated by recent progress in the generation of optical spatiotemporal vortex pulses
(STVPs), there is a theoretical discussion about the transverse orbital angular momentum …