Advances in light transverse momenta and optical lateral forces

Y Shi, X Xu, M Nieto-Vesperinas, Q Song… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Engineering photonic angular momentum with structured light: a review

J Chen, C Wan, Q Zhan - Advanced Photonics, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Structured light with inhomogeneous phase, amplitude, and polarization spatial distributions
that represent an infinite-dimensional space of eigenstates for light as the ideal carrier can …

Transverse and longitudinal angular momenta of light

KY Bliokh, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We review basic physics and novel types of optical angular momentum. We start with a
theoretical overview of momentum and angular momentum properties of generic optical …

Chiral quantum optics

P Lodahl, S Mahmoodian, S Stobbe… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Advanced photonic nanostructures are currently revolutionizing the optics and photonics
that underpin applications ranging from light technology to quantum-information processing …

From transverse angular momentum to photonic wheels

A Aiello, P Banzer, M Neugebauer, G Leuchs - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Scientists have known for more than a century that light possesses both linear and angular
momenta along the direction of propagation. However, only recent advances in optics have …

Deterministic photon–emitter coupling in chiral photonic circuits

I Söllner, S Mahmoodian, SL Hansen, L Midolo… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Engineering photon emission and scattering is central to modern photonics applications
ranging from light harvesting to quantum-information processing. To this end, nanophotonic …

Quantum state-controlled directional spontaneous emission of photons into a nanophotonic waveguide

R Mitsch, C Sayrin, B Albrecht, P Schneeweiss… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The spin of light in subwavelength-diameter waveguides can be orthogonal to the
propagation direction of the photons because of the strong transverse confinement. This …

Universal spin-momentum locking of evanescent waves

T Van Mechelen, Z Jacob - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We show the existence of an inherent property of evanescent electromagnetic waves: spin-
momentum locking, where the direction of momentum fundamentally locks the polarization …

Nanophotonic optical isolator controlled by the internal state of cold atoms

C Sayrin, C Junge, R Mitsch, B Albrecht, D O'Shea… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
The realization of nanophotonic optical isolators with high optical isolation even at ultralow
light levels and low optical losses is an open problem. Here, we employ the link between the …

Quantum optics of chiral spin networks

H Pichler, T Ramos, AJ Daley, P Zoller - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study the driven-dissipative dynamics of a network of spin-1/2 systems coupled to one or
more chiral 1D bosonic waveguides within the framework of a Markovian master equation …