Spin angular momentum modulation via spin–orbit interaction in fractional orbital angular momentum beams [PDF]
NanophotonicsLight exhibits both spin and orbital angular momentum (SAM and OAM). These two forms of angular momentum remain independent in paraxial fields, but become coupled in confined fields through spin–orbit interactions (SOI).
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Dual electromagnetism: helicity, spin, momentum and angular momentum [PDF]
New Journal of Physics, 2013 The dual symmetry between electric and magnetic fields is an important intrinsic property of Maxwell equations in free space. This symmetry underlies the conservation of optical helicity and, as we show here, is closely related to the separation of spin ...
Konstantin Y Bliokh +2 more
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Orbital angular momentum of spin electromagnetic wave
Results in PhysicsSpin angular momentum (SAM) and Orbital angular momentum (OAM) are two distinct forms of electromagnetic angular momentum (AM). Generally, circularly-polarized (CP) wave is deemed as the typical form of spin wave, which carries SAM only.
Zhiwei Sun +5 more
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Interaction of spin-orbit angular momentum in the tight focusing of structured light
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 As an intrinsic property of light, angular momentum has always been an important research object of light field. In the past few years, the interactions between spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum in tightly focused structured light have ...
Ji-Xiang Guo +7 more
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Spin-orbit interaction of light induced by transverse spin angular momentum engineering [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Harnessing both orbital and spin angular momentum in light fields enables various applications in bio-sensing and nano-photonics. Here, the authors create engineered spin-orbit coupling between orbital angular momentum and transverse spin angular ...
Zengkai Shao +4 more
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A proposed measurement of optical orbital and spin angular momentum and its implications for photon angular momentum [PDF]
Physics Letters B, 2018 The expression for the total angular momentum carried by a laser optical vortex beam, splits, in the paraxial approximation, into two terms which seem to represent orbital and spin angular momentum respectively.
Elliot Leader
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Spin and orbital angular momentum of coherent photons in a waveguide
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 Spin angular momentum of a photon corresponds to a polarisation degree of freedom of lights, and such that various polarisation properties are coming from macroscopic manifestation of quantum-mechanical properties of lights.
Shinichi Saito
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Revealing intrinsic 3D spin angular momentum of evanescent acoustic phonons on a single-crystal surface using ultrafast optoacoustics [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsRecent advances in spin angular momentum (SAM) of acoustic and elastic waves have deepened our understanding of phonons across classical and quantum regimes.
Yi He +5 more
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Spin-constrained orbital-angular-momentum control in high-harmonic generation
Physical Review Research, 2019 The interplay between spin and orbital angular momentum in the up-conversion process allows us to control the macroscopic wave front of high harmonics by manipulating the microscopic polarizations of the driving field.
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Spin-induced angular momentum switching [PDF]
Optics Letters, 2007 When light is transmitted through optically inhomogeneous and anisotropic media the spatial distribution of light can be modified according to its input polarization state.
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