Photonic orbital angular momentum transfer and magnetic skyrmion rotation

Accelerated rotation with orbital angular momentum modes

Christian Schulze,1 Filippus S. Roux,2 Angela Dudley,2 Ronald Rop,3 Michael Duparré,1 and Andrew Forbes2,4,* 1Institute of Applied Optics, Friedrich Schiller University, Fröbelstieg 1, 07743 Jena, Germany 2Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa 3Department of Physics, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, Egerton 20115, Kenya 4School of Physics, Un...

Detection of orbital angular momentum using a photonic integrated circuit

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) state of photons offer an attractive additional degree of freedom that has found a variety of applications. Measurement of OAM state, which is a critical task of these applications, demands photonic integrated devices for improved fidelity, miniaturization, and reconfiguration. Here we report the design of a silicon-integrated OAM receiver that is capable of detec...

Rotation and Angular Momentum

There is a fundamental connection between the angular momentum (a mechanical quantity) and the rotation operators (which is a symmetry group). The angular momentum is the generator of rotations. Because of this connection, many properties of angular momentum operators can be derived from the properties of the rotation group. We will derive these properties (mainly the commutation relations) sta...

Quantized rotation of atoms from photons with orbital angular momentum.

We demonstrate the coherent transfer of the orbital angular momentum of a photon to an atom in quantized units of variant Planck's over 2pi, using a 2-photon stimulated Raman process with Laguerre-Gaussian beams to generate an atomic vortex state in a Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms. We show that the process is coherent by creating superpositions of different vortex states, where the r...

Generating Optical Orbital Angular Momentum with Silicon Photonic Circuits