scholarly journals Angular momentum of optical modes in a silicon channel waveguide

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dengke Zhang
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Knutson ◽  
Sanjaya Lohani ◽  
Onur Danaci ◽  
Sean D. Huver ◽  
Ryan T. Glasser

Author(s):  
Andrew Forbes

Optical modes that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) are routinely produced external to the laser cavity and have found a variety of applications, thus increasing the demand for integrated solutions for their production. Yet such modes are notoriously difficult to produce from lasers due to the strict symmetry requirements for their creation, together with the need to break the degeneracy in helicity. Here, we review the progress made since 1992 in producing such twisted light modes directly at the source, from gas to solid-state lasers, bulk to integrated on-chip solutions, through to generic devices for on-demand OAM in both scalar and vector forms. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Optical orbital angular momentum’.


2010 ◽  
Vol 283 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jifeng Jia ◽  
Yongping Zhang ◽  
Weidong Li ◽  
Lu Li

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