Light–matter interaction empowered by orbital angular momentum: Control of matter at the micro-and nanoscale

A Porfirev, S Khonina, A Kuchmizhak - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an important feature of structured
electromagnetic fields exhibiting non-uniform spatial distribution. In contrast to a spin …

Emerging tailored light sources for studying chirality and symmetry

D Habibović, KR Hamilton, O Neufeld… - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ultrashort laser pulses are unique tools to trigger and probe the fastest charge dynamics in
matter, allowing the investigation of fundamental physical phenomena with unprecedented …

Second-harmonic generation and the conservation of spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum of light

G Gui, NJ Brooks, HC Kapteyn, MM Murnane… - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
Light with spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) is a recently discovered type
of structured and localized electromagnetic field. This field carries characteristic space–time …

Tunable orbital angular momentum in high-harmonic generation

D Gauthier, PR Ribič, G Adhikary, A Camper… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Optical vortices are currently one of the most intensively studied topics in optics. These light
beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), have been successfully utilized in the …

Nonlinear helical dichroism in chiral and achiral molecules

JL Bégin, A Jain, A Parks, F Hufnagel, P Corkum… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chiral interactions are prevalent in nature, driving a variety of biochemical processes.
Discerning the two non-superimposable mirror images of a chiral molecule, known as …

Synthesis and characterization of attosecond light vortices in the extreme ultraviolet

R Géneaux, A Camper, T Auguste, O Gobert… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Infrared and visible light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) are currently
thoroughly studied for their extremely broad applicative prospects, among which are …

Transferring orbital and spin angular momenta of light to atoms

A Picón, A Benseny, J Mompart… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), such as Laguerre–Gaussian (LG)
beams, give rise to the violation of the standard dipolar selection rules during interaction …

Materials processing with a tightly focused femtosecond laser vortex pulse

C Hnatovsky, VG Shvedov, W Krolikowski, AV Rode - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter we present the first (to our knowledge) demonstration of material modification
using tightly focused single femtosecond laser vortex pulses. Double-charge femtosecond …

Beams of photons with nonzero projections of orbital angular momenta: new results

BA Knyazev, VG Serbo - Physics-Uspekhi, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Solving Maxwell's equations in cylindrical coordinates yields states in quantum theory with
definite values of energy ℏω, longitudinal momentum ℏk z, and total angular momentum …

Experimental verification of position-dependent angular-momentum selection rules for absorption of twisted light by a bound electron

A Afanasev, CE Carlson, CT Schmiegelow… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the multipole excitation of atoms with twisted light, ie, by a vortex light field that
carries orbital angular momentum. A single trapped 40 Ca+ ion serves as a localized and …