Photons can carry angular momentum, not only due to their spin, but also due to their spatial structure. This extra twist has been used, for example, to drive circular motion of microscopic ...

The angular momentum of light comes in two varieties: spin and orbital. Spin is associated with optical polarization, which is the orientation of light’s electric-field oscillations. Orbital angular ...

Spintronics are promising devices that work utilizing not only the charge of electrons, like conventional electronics, but ...

Optical machine learning utilizes information held in light to ... The proposed diffractive deep neural network employs orbital angular momentum encoding and diffractive layers to process ...

In this study, the combined effect of the near-field optical angular momentum and the bias voltage on the Raman response of a single molecular junction, creating a molecular switch, was investigated.

The Talbot effect in cylindrical systems is explored, offering unprecedented control over light's structure and promising advancements in optical communication.

According to Forbes, another interesting feature is that the beams carrying 10 and 100 units of angular momentum are significantly different in size when they come out of the laser. When they travel ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now ...

SPIE Gold Medal: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop For innovations in the transfer of optical angular momentum to matter, using sculpted light for laser manipulation on atomic, nano- and microscales, and ...

Second International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum 3 - 5 June 2013, Glasgow, United Kingdom ... This international conference provides a forum for scientists working on the orbital angular ...