Recent Advances in Generation and Detection of Orbital Angular Momentum Optical Beams—A Review

Generating arbitrary arrays of circular Airy Gaussian vortex beams with a single digital hologram

(2021) Dongmei Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Carbon Dioxide Gas Sensor Based on Polyhexamethylene Biguanide Polymer Deposited on Silicon Nano-Cylinders Metasurface

(2021) Nikolay Lvovich Kazanskiy et al.   SENSORS

Underwater acoustic multiplexing communication by pentamode metasurface

(2021) Zhaoyong Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Spectral characteristics of broad band-rejection filter based on Bragg grating, one-dimensional photonic crystal, and subwavelength grating waveguide

(2021) S N Khonina et al.   PHYSICA SCRIPTA

2D-Photonic crystal heterostructures for the realization of compact photonic devices

(2021) M.A. Butt et al.   Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications

Spatial-Light-Modulator-Based Multichannel Data Transmission by Vortex Beams of Various Orders

(2021) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   SENSORS

Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation

(2021) Yinghui Guo et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces

(2021) Dongyi Wang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Generation of Complex Transverse Energy Flow Distributions with Autofocusing Optical Vortex Beams

(2021) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   Micromachines

Silicon photonic devices realized on refractive index engineered subwavelength grating waveguides-A review

(2021) N.L. Kazanskiy et al.   OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY

A Grating Coupler Design for Optical Vortex Mode Generation in Rectangular Waveguides

(2021) Denis M. Fatkhiev et al.   IEEE Photonics Journal

Generation of Multiple Vector Optical Bottle Beams

(2021) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   Photonics

Design and modeling of a photonic integrated device for optical vortex generation in a silicon waveguide

(2021) R.V. Kutluyarov et al.   Computer Optics

Modeling and Optimization of Vortex Modes Propagation in Rectangular Dielectric Waveguides

(2020) Vladimir S. Lyubopytov et al.   IEEE Photonics Journal

Efficient Optical Angular Momentum Manipulation for Compact Multiplexing and Demultiplexing Using a Dielectric Metasurface

(2020) Siqi Li et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Compact and high-performance mode sorter enabling a multi-dimensional multiplexed 50-km vortex fiber communication system

(2020) Yuanhui Wen et al.   Optica

Versatile on-chip light-coupling and (de)multiplexing from arbitrary polarizations to controlled waveguide modes using integrated dielectric metasurface

(2020) Yuan Meng et al.   Photonics Research

Application of a binary curved fork grating for the generation and detection of optical vortices outside the focal plane

(2020) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Spectral control of the orbital angular momentum of a laser beam based on 3D properties of spiral phase plates fabricated for an infra-red wavelength

(2020) Vladimir Podlipnov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optomechanical detection of light with orbital angular momentum

(2020) Hamidreza Kaviani et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

On-chip generation of the reconfigurable orbital angular momentum with high order

(2020) Aiping Liu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Device performance of standard strip, slot and hybrid plasmonic μ-ring resonator: a comparative study

(2020) M. A. Butt et al.   Waves in Random and Complex Media

Generation of orbital angular momentum modes via holographic leaky-wave metasurfaces

(2020) Homayoon Oraizi et al.   Scientific Reports

Variable transformation of singular cylindrical vector beams using anisotropic crystals

(2020) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   Scientific Reports

Generation of E-band metasurface-based vortex beam with reduced divergence angle

(2020) Hyeongju Chung et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultrashort inverted tapered silicon ridge-to-slotwaveguide coupler at 155 µm and 3392 µmwavelength

(2020) Ali Butt et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Design Principles of Apodized Grating Couplers

(2020) Zhexin Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Diffractive optical elements for multiplexing structured laser beams

(2020) N L Kazanskiy et al.   QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Polarization Detection Using Light's Orbital Angular Momentum

(2020) Aning Ma et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Evaluation of the Laguerre–Gaussian mode purity produced by three-dimensional-printed microwave spiral phase plates

(2020) D. Isakov et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Low‐profile wideband dual‐circularly polarized orbital angular momentum antenna array using metasurface

(2020) Chenyu Zhou et al.   MICROWAVE AND OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Directional coupler design for orbital angular momentum mode-based photonic integrated circuits

(2020) In Joon Lee et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Orbital angular momentum mode investigation and detection of the combined vortex beam generated by coherent combining technology

(2020) Yu Tao et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generation of Pure OAM Beams with a Single State of Polarization by Antenna-Decorated Microdisk Resonators

(2020) Kévin G. Cognée et al.   ACS Photonics

Metasurface Spiral Focusing Generators with Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum Based on Slab Silicon Nitride Waveguide and Vanadium Dioxide (VO2)

(2020) Li Chen et al.   Nanomaterials

High-efficiency transmissive metasurface for dual-polarized dual-mode OAM generation

(2020) Xudong Bai   Results in Physics

3D nanoprinted kinoform spiral zone plates on fiber facets for high-efficiency focused vortex beam generation

(2020) Jian Yu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Spatial light modulator-based programmable J-plate for the arbitrary spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion of lights

(2019) Heng Zhou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Ultracompact biosensor based on a metalens with a longitudinally structured vector beam

(2019) Yi Qin et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum Modes Using Fiber Systems

(2019) Hongwei Zhang et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Recognition of polarization and phase states of light based on the interaction of non-uniformly polarized laser beams with singular phase structures

(2019) S. N. Khonina et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Mechanisms of 2π phase control in dielectric metasurface and transmission enhancement effect

(2019) Jing Li et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Experimental Observation of Linear and Rotational Doppler Shifts from Several Designer Surfaces

(2019) Baiyang Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities

(2019) Yijie Shen et al.   Light-Science & Applications

A Minimalist Single‐Layer Metasurface for Arbitrary and Full Control of Vector Vortex Beams

(2019) Yanjun Bao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Orbital angular momentum holography for high-security encryption

(2019) Xinyuan Fang et al.   Nature Photonics

All-Optical Signal Processing in Structured Light Multiplexing with Dielectric Meta-Optics

(2019) Yanliang He et al.   ACS Photonics

Orbital angular momentum channel monitoring of coaxially multiplexed vortices by diffraction pattern analysis

(2018) Shiyao Fu et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Hybrid plasmonic waveguide-assisted Metal–Insulator–Metal ring resonator for refractive index sensing

(2018) M. A. Butt et al.   JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS

Abruptly autofocusing property of circular Airy vortex beams with different initial launch angles

(2018) Yunfeng Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

A technique for simultaneous detection of individual vortex states of Laguerre–Gaussian beams transmitted through an aqueous suspension of microparticles

(2018) S.N. Khonina et al.   OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING

Orbital angular momentum modes emission from a silicon photonic integrated device for km-scale data-carrying fiber transmission

(2018) Jun Liu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Ultra-broadband on-chip twisted light emitter for optical communications

(2018) Zhenwei Xie et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Experimental demonstration of tunable refractometer based on orbital angular momentum of longitudinally structured light

(2018) Ahmed H. Dorrah et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Orbital Angular Momentum Generation and Detection by Geometric-Phase Based Metasurfaces

(2018) Menglin Chen et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Optical forces of focused femtosecond laser pulses on nonlinear optical Rayleigh particles

(2018) Liping Gong et al.   Photonics Research

Sublinearly chirped metalenses for forming abruptly autofocusing cylindrically polarized beams

(2018) Sergey A. Degtyarev et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Nonlinearity-Induced Multiplexed Optical Trapping and Manipulation with Femtosecond Vector Beams

(2018) Yuquan Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

All-fiber orbital angular momentum mode multiplexer based on a mode-selective photonic lantern and a mode polarization controller

(2018) Xinglin Zeng et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Orbital angular momentum vector modes (de)multiplexer based on multimode micro-ring

(2018) Shimao Li et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optical rotational self-assembly at air-water surface by a single vortex beam

(2018) Xintong Chen et al.   Results in Physics

On-chip orbital angular momentum modes generator and (de)multiplexer based on trench silicon waveguides

(2017) Shuang Zheng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Orbital angular momentum 25 years on [Invited]

(2017) Miles J. Padgett   OPTICS EXPRESS

Simultaneous wavelength and orbital angular momentum demultiplexing using tunable MEMS-based Fabry-Perot filter

(2017) Vladimir S. Lyubopytov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Using a complex optical orbital-angular-momentum spectrum to measure object parameters

(2017) Guodong Xie et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

3  ×  3 optical switch by exploiting vortex beam emitters based on silicon microrings with superimposed gratings

(2017) Mirco Scaffardi et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

All-fiber second-order optical vortex generation based on strong modulated long-period grating in a four-mode fiber

(2017) Hang Wu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Subwavelength gratings for polarization conversion and focusing of laser light

(2017) Sergey S. Stafeev et al.   Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications

Polarization conversion under focusing of vortex laser beams along the axis of anisotropic crystals

(2017) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Arbitrary spin-to–orbital angular momentum conversion of light

(2017) Robert C. Devlin et al.   SCIENCE

Chirality detection of enantiomers using twisted optical metamaterials

(2017) Yang Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Dynamic modulation of Poincaré beams

(2017) C. Alpmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Switchable phase and polarization singular beams generation using dielectric metasurfaces

(2017) Yanliang He et al.   Scientific Reports

Complex beam shaping based on an equivalent q-plate system and analysis of its properties using digital holography polarization imaging

(2017) Ching-Han Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Measuring the complex orbital angular momentum spectrum and spatial mode decomposition of structured light beams

(2017) Alessio D’Errico et al.   Optica

Vector Beam Polarization State Spectrum Analyzer

(2017) Ignacio Moreno et al.   Scientific Reports

Detecting the Orbital Angular Momentum of Electro-Magnetic Waves Using Virtual Rotational Antenna

(2017) Chao ZHANG et al.   Scientific Reports

Design, fabrication and characterization of Computer Generated Holograms for anti-counterfeiting applications using OAM beams as light decoders

(2017) Gianluca Ruffato et al.   Scientific Reports

Visible-Frequency Metasurface for Structuring and Spatially Multiplexing Optical Vortices

(2016) M. Q. Mehmood et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photonic nanohelix generated by a binary spiral axicon

(2016) Sergey A. Degtyarev et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Generating multiple orbital angular momentum vortex beams using a metasurface in radio frequency domain

(2016) Shixing Yu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

On-chip generation and control of the vortex beam

(2016) Aiping Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Experimental detection of high-order or fractional orbital angular momentum of light based on a robust mode converter

(2016) Jie Zhou et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Generation of optical vortices with curved fork-shaped holograms

(2016) Suzana Topuzoski   OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Generation of generalized spiraling Bessel beams of arbitrary order by curved fork-shaped holograms

(2016) F. Saad et al.   OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Measurement of orbital angular momentum spectra of multiplexing optical vortices

(2016) Shiyao Fu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generation of photonic orbital angular momentum superposition states using vortex beam emitters with superimposed gratings

(2016) Qingsheng Xiao et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Excitation and separation of vortex modes in twisted air-core fiber

(2016) Jingfu Ye et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Wavelength-selective orbital-angular-momentum beam generation using MEMS tunable Fabry–Perot filter

(2016) Sujoy Paul et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Generation of In-Plane Light Beam with Orbital Angular Momentum with an Asymmetrical Plasmonic Waveguide

(2016) Wanwan Liu et al.   Plasmonics

Non-diffracting speckles of a perfect vortex beam

(2016) Salla Gangi Reddy et al.   Journal of Optics

Integrated photonic emitter with a wide switching range of orbital angular momentum modes

(2016) Yu Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Integratable quarter-wave plates enable one-way angular momentum conversion

(2016) Yao Liang et al.   Scientific Reports

Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators

(2016) Andrew Forbes et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Vector Vortex Beam Generation with a Single Plasmonic Metasurface

(2016) Fuyong Yue et al.   ACS Photonics

Detection of orbital angular momentum using a photonic integrated circuit

(2016) Guanghao Rui et al.   Scientific Reports

Gaussian laser beam transformation into an optical vortex beam by helical lens

(2015) Ljiljana Janicijevic et al.   JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS

Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

(2015) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Vortex phase elements as detectors of polarization state

(2015) Svetlana N. Khonina et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Self-imaging of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in rectangular multimode interference waveguides

(2015) Zelin Ma et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generation of cylindrical vector beams of high orders using uniaxial crystals

(2015) S N Khonina et al.   Journal of Optics

Helicity multiplexed broadband metasurface holograms

(2015) Dandan Wen et al.   Nature Communications

Mode division multiplexing using an orbital angular momentum mode sorter and MIMO-DSP over a graded-index few-mode optical fibre

(2015) Hao Huang et al.   Scientific Reports

Generating optical superimposed vortex beam with tunable orbital angular momentum using integrated devices

(2015) Yu Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Massive individual orbital angular momentum channels for multiplexing enabled by Dammann gratings

(2015) Ting Lei et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Three-dimensional information from two-dimensional scans: a scanning microscope with postacquisition refocusing capability

(2015) Alexander Jesacher et al.   Optica

Orbital angular momentum vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

(2015) Huanlu Li et al.   Optica

Detecting Lateral Motion using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

(2015) Neda Cvijetic et al.   Scientific Reports

Infrared liquid crystal polymer micropolarizer

(2014) Wei-Liang Hsu et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Dielectric Meta-Reflectarray for Broadband Linear Polarization Conversion and Optical Vortex Generation

(2014) Yuanmu Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Light beams with selective angular momentum generated by hybrid plasmonic waveguides

(2014) Yao Liang et al.   Nanoscale

Flat optics with designer metasurfaces

(2014) Nanfang Yu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A quantum memory for orbital angular momentum photonic qubits

(2014) A. Nicolas et al.   Nature Photonics

Communication with spatially modulated light through turbulent air across Vienna

(2014) Mario Krenn et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

A modular spiral phase plate design for orbital angular momentum generation at millimetre wavelengths

(2014) Peter Schemmel et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

100  Tbit/s free-space data link enabled by three-dimensional multiplexing of orbital angular momentum, polarization, and wavelength

(2014) Hao Huang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Generation of vector beams with liquid crystal disclination lines

(2014) Miha Čančula et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Radially Polarized Orbital Angular Momentum Beam Emitter Based on Shallow-Ridge Silicon Microring Cavity

(2014) Rui Li et al.   IEEE Photonics Journal

High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing

(2014) Yan Yan et al.   Nature Communications

Spin-Enabled Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Manipulating Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

(2013) Guixin Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Measurement of the orbital angular momentum density of light by modal decomposition

(2013) Christian Schulze et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Metamaterials-based broadband generation of orbital angular momentum carrying vector beams

(2013) Zhe Zhao et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Metamaterial Huygens’ Surfaces: Tailoring Wave Fronts with Reflectionless Sheets

(2013) Carl Pfeiffer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Detection of a Spinning Object Using Light's Orbital Angular Momentum

(2013) M. P. J. Lavery et al.   SCIENCE

Terabit-Scale Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing in Fibers

(2013) N. Bozinovic et al.   SCIENCE

Generating in-Plane Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Beams With Silicon Waveguides

(2013) Dengke Zhang et al.   IEEE Photonics Journal

Orbital angular momentum generation and mode transformation with high efficiency using forked polarization gratings

(2012) Yanming Li et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Generation of dipole vortex array using spiral Dammann zone plates

(2012) Junjie Yu et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Ultra-thin plasmonic optical vortex plate based on phase discontinuities

(2012) Patrice Genevet et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction of a Gaussian laser beam by fork-shaped gratings

(2012) Ljiljana Janicijevic et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Influence of atmospheric turbulence on optical communications using orbital angular momentum for encoding

(2012) Mehul Malik et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Abruptly autofocusing vortex beams

(2012) Jeffrey A. Davis et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Encoding and decoding of orbital angular momentum for wireless optical interconnects on chip

(2012) Dengke Zhang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Demonstration of free space coherent optical communication using integrated silicon photonic orbital angular momentum devices

(2012) Tiehui Su et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Shaping Laguerre–Gaussian laser modes with binary gratings using a digital micromirror device

(2012) Vitaly Lerner et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Integrated Compact Optical Vortex Beam Emitters

(2012) X. Cai et al.   SCIENCE

Holographic detection of the orbital angular momentum of light with plasmonic photodiodes

(2012) Patrice Genevet et al.   Nature Communications

Tweezers with a twist

(2011) Miles Padgett et al.   Nature Photonics

Angular-momentum coupled optical waves in chirally-coupled-core fibers

(2011) Xiuquan Ma et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Circular grating coupler for creating focused azimuthally and radially polarized beams

(2011) Christopher R. Doerr et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Spin-to-orbital conversion of the angular momentum of light and its classical and quantum applications

(2011) Lorenzo Marrucci et al.   Journal of Optics

Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

(2011) Alison M. Yao et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Generation of electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum

(2010) Masaya Uchida et al.   NATURE

Spatially engineered polarization states and optical vortices in uniaxial crystals

(2010) Anton Desyatnikov et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Decomposition of radially and azimuthally polarized beams using a circular-polarization and vortex-sensing diffraction grating

(2010) Ignacio Moreno et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Application of cooled spatial light modulator for high power nanosecond laser micromachining

(2010) Rainer J Beck et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Orbital angular momentum in radio: Measurement methods

(2010) Siavoush M. Mohammadi et al.   RADIO SCIENCE

Efficient generation and sorting of orbital angular momentum eigenmodes of light by thermally tuned q-plates

(2009) Ebrahim Karimi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum and Optical Vortices for Astronomical Coronagraphy from Ground and Space Telescopes

(2009) C. Barbieri et al.   EARTH MOON AND PLANETS

Encoded binary diffractive element to form hyper-geometric laser beams

(2009) S N Khonina et al.  

Beam-spreading and topological charge of vortex beams propagating in a turbulent atmosphere

(2009) Tao Wang et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Efficient scalar and vectorial singular beam shaping using homogeneous anisotropic media

(2009) Charles Loussert et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Vortex sensing diffraction gratings

(2009) Ignacio Moreno et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical vortices generated by multi-level achromatic spiral phase plates for broadband beams

(2007) Qiansen Xie et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS