Controlling light’s helicity at the source: orbital angular momentum states from lasers

Modal Performance of Spiral Phase Plate VCSELs

(2016) Pierluigi Debernardi et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Emission of a propagation invariant flat-top beam from a microchip laser

(2016) Darryl Naidoo et al.   JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE

A laser for complex spatial modes

(2016) Robert R. Alfano et al.   Nature Photonics

Controlled generation of higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from a laser

(2016) Darryl Naidoo et al.   Nature Photonics

Self-mode-locked Laguerre-Gaussian beam with staged topological charge by thermal-optical field coupling

(2016) Yuxia Zhang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generation and detection of broadband multi-channel orbital angular momentum by micrometer-scale meta-reflectarray

(2016) Jinpeng Liu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

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

(2016) Wanwan Liu et al.   Plasmonics

Highly efficient, versatile, self-Q-switched, high-repetition-rate microchip laser generating Ince–Gaussian modes for optical trapping

(2016) Jun Dong et al.   QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

A high repetition rate passively Q-switched microchip laser for controllable transverse laser modes

(2016) Jun Dong et al.   Journal of Optics

Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators

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

High-power TEM00 and Laguerre–Gaussian mode generation in double resonator configuration

(2015) D. J. Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Handedness control in a tunable midinfrared (60–125  μm) vortex laser

(2015) Michael-Tomoki Horikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Radially polarized cylindrical vector beams from a monolithic microchip laser

(2015) Darryl Naidoo et al.   OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Actively Q-switched and vortex Nd:YAG laser

(2015) Zhiqiang Fang et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Direct generation of an optical vortex beam in a single-frequency Nd:YVO_4 laser

(2015) D. J. Kim et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Measuring the nonseparability of vector vortex beams

(2015) Melanie McLaren et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Orbital angular momentum vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

(2015) Huanlu Li et al.   Optica

Frequency-doubling of an optical vortex output from a stressed Yb-doped fiber amplifier

(2014) Mio Koyama et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Light beams with selective angular momentum generated by hybrid plasmonic waveguides

(2014) Yao Liang et al.   Nanoscale

An intracavity, frequency-doubled self-Raman vortex laser

(2014) Andrew J. Lee et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Generating and identifying optical orbital angular momentum with silicon photonic circuits

(2014) Jie Sun et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Role of cavity degeneracy for high-order mode excitation in end-pumped solid-state lasers

(2014) Nicolas Barré et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Doughnut laser beam as an incoherent superposition of two petal beams

(2014) Igor A. Litvin et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Controlling the handedness of directly excited Laguerre–Gaussian modes in a solid-state laser

(2014) Di Lin et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Direct generation of optical vortices

(2014) Mathew D. Williams et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Implementation of a spatial light modulator for intracavity beam shaping

(2014) L Burger et al.   Journal of Optics

Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters

(2014) Michael J. Strain et al.   Nature Communications

Exciting higher-order radial Laguerre–Gaussian modes in a diode-pumped solid-state laser resonator

(2013) Sandile Ngcobo et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Vector vortex beam emission from organic semiconductor microlasers

(2013) H. Qian et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Monolithic generators of pseudo-nondiffracting optical vortex beams at the microscale

(2013) Albertas Žukauskas et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Generation of Laguerre-Gaussian beam from end-pumped and c-cut Nd:YVO4 laser

(2013) Minqiang Kang Minqiang Kang et al.   Chinese Optics Letters

All-Digital Holographic Tool for Mode Excitation and Analysis in Optical Fibers

(2013) D. Flamm et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Selective generation of Laguerre–Gaussian (LG0n) mode output in a diode-laser pumped Nd:YAG laser

(2013) J.W. Kim et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Integrated photonic orbital angular momentum devices and systems: Potentials and challenges

(2013) XinLun Cai et al.   Science China-Technological Sciences

A digital laser for on-demand laser modes

(2013) Sandile Ngcobo et al.   Nature Communications

Laguerre-Gaussian modes selection in diode-pumped solid-state lasers

(2012) Yury Senatsky et al.   OPTICAL REVIEW

Azimuthal decomposition with digital holograms

(2012) Igor A. Litvin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Wavefront reconstruction by modal decomposition

(2012) Christian Schulze et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Mode analysis with a spatial light modulator as a correlation filter

(2012) Daniel Flamm et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Structured Light Meets Structured Matter

(2012) N. M. Litchinitser   SCIENCE

Integrated Compact Optical Vortex Beam Emitters

(2012) X. Cai et al.   SCIENCE

Intra-cavity generation of superpositions of Laguerre–Gaussian beams

(2011) D. Naidoo et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Transverse mode selection in a monolithic microchip laser

(2011) Darryl Naidoo et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Higher-Order Poincaré Sphere, Stokes Parameters, and the Angular Momentum of Light

(2011) Giovanni Milione et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

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

Generation of hollow scalar and vector beams using a spot-defect mirror

(2010) Akihiko Ito et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Generation of very-high order Laguerre-Gaussian modes in Yb:YAG ceramic laser

(2010) M.P. Thirugnanasambandam et al.   LASER PHYSICS LETTERS

Characterization of 1.06 μm optical vortex laser based on a side-pumped Nd:GdVO4 bounce oscillator

(2009) M. Okida et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

Gaussian mode selection with intracavity diffractive optics

(2009) Igor A. Litvin et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Cylindrical vector beams: from mathematical concepts to applications

(2009) Qiwen Zhan   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Advances in optical angular momentum

(2008) S. Franke-Arnold et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews