Light's twist

That light travels in straight lines is an obvious statement. But within light the energy and momentum can twist and twirl like eddies in a stream. These twists carry angular momentum which make microscopic objects spin, encode information and allow new tests of quantum mechanics.

[1]  David G Grier,et al.  Structure of optical vortices. , 2003, Physical review letters.

[2]  Aniceto Belmonte,et al.  Experimental detection of transverse particle movement with structured light , 2013, Scientific Reports.

[3]  R. Boyd,et al.  Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by a Slow-Light Medium , 2011, Science.

[4]  B Rotenberg,et al.  Highly confined ions store charge more efficiently in supercapacitors , 2013, Nature Communications.

[5]  Naveen Verma,et al.  Corrigendum: Graphene-based wireless bacteria detection on tooth enamel , 2013 .

[6]  Jonathan Leach,et al.  Direct measurement of the skew angle of the Poynting vector in a helically phased beam. , 2006, Optics express.

[7]  M. Berry,et al.  Dislocations in wave trains , 1974, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

[8]  Jonathan Leach,et al.  An optically driven pump for microfluidics. , 2006, Lab on a chip.

[9]  S. Chu,et al.  Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles. , 1986, Optics letters.

[10]  M. Lavery,et al.  Efficient sorting of orbital angular momentum states of light. , 2010, Physical review letters.

[11]  D. Grier.  A revolution in optical manipulation , 2003, Nature.

[12]  Robert Fickler,et al.  Quantum Entanglement of High Angular Momenta , 2012, Science.

[13]  Stephen H. Simpson,et al.  Rotational Doppler velocimetry to probe the angular velocity of spinning microparticles , 2014 .

[14]  Mark R. Dennis,et al.  Isolated optical vortex knots , 2010 .

[15]  Takahiro Kuga,et al.  Novel Optical Trap of Atoms with a Doughnut Beam , 1997 .

[16]  M J Padgett,et al.  Intrinsic and extrinsic nature of the orbital angular momentum of a light beam. , 2002, Physical review letters.

[17]  Keiki Takeda,et al.  Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons , 2022 .

[18]  R. V. Jones.  ‘Aether drag’ in a transversely moving medium , 1975, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

[19]  Andrew Forbes,et al.  A digital laser for on-demand laser modes , 2013, Nature Communications.

[20]  M. Padgett,et al.  Topology of optical vortex lines formed by the interference of three, four, and five plane waves. , 2006, Optics express.

[21]  P. Schattschneider,et al.  Production and application of electron vortex beams , 2010, Nature.

[22]  M Ritsch-Marte,et al.  Violation of a Bell inequality in two-dimensional orbital angular momentum state-spaces. , 2009, Optics express.

[23]  Jennifer E. Curtis,et al.  Dynamic holographic optical tweezers , 2002 .

[24]  Miles J Padgett,et al.  Fractality of light's darkness. , 2008, Physical review letters.

[25]  Pál Ormos,et al.  Complex micromachines produced and driven by light , 2002, CLEO 2002.

[26]  Miles J. Padgett,et al.  Tweezers with a twist , 2011 .

[27]  R. Boyd,et al.  Influence of atmospheric turbulence on optical communications using orbital angular momentum for encoding. , 2012, Optics Express.

[28]  L. Marrucci,et al.  Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in inhomogeneous anisotropic media. , 2006, Physical review letters.

[29]  Robert W. Boyd,et al.  Quantum Correlations in Optical Angle–Orbital Angular Momentum Variables , 2010, Science.

[30]  I. McNulty,et al.  Proposal for generating brilliant x-ray beams carrying orbital angular momentum. , 2008, Physical review letters.

[31]  Allen,et al.  Light-induced torque on moving atoms. , 1994, Physical review letters.

[32]  C. Lévi-Strauss,et al.  Experimental investigation , 2013 .

[33]  Duncan A. Robertson,et al.  Rotational frequency shift of a light beam , 1998 .

[34]  J. P. Woerdman,et al.  Experimental demonstration of fractional orbital angular momentum entanglement of two photons. , 2005, Physical review letters.

[35]  K. Dholakia,et al.  Second-harmonic generation and the conservation of orbital angular momentum with high-order Laguerre-Gaussian modes , 1997 .

[36]  S. Barnett,et al.  Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum. , 2004, Optics express.

[37]  Charles Galton Darwin,et al.  Notes on the Theory of Radiation , 1932 .

[38]  K. Clays,et al.  Interactions of twisted light with chiral molecules: An experimental investigation , 2005 .

[39]  A. Willner,et al.  Terabit-Scale Orbital Angular Momentum Mode Division Multiplexing in Fibers , 2013, Science.

[40]  S. Barnett,et al.  Polarization and image rotation induced by a rotating dielectric rod: an optical angular momentum interpretation. , 2006, Optics letters.

[41]  John Henry Poynting,et al.  The wave motion of a revolving shaft, and a suggestion as to the angular momentum in a beam of circularly polarised light , 1909 .

[42]  J. P. Woerdman,et al.  Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes. , 1992, Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

[43]  M. Vasnetsov,et al.  Laser beams with screw dislocations in their wavefronts , 2003 .

[44]  H. Then,et al.  Utilization of photon orbital angular momentum in the low-frequency radio domain. , 2007, Physical review letters.

[45]  Stephen M. Barnett,et al.  Uncertainty principle for angular position and angular momentum , 2004 .

[46]  S. Barnett,et al.  Observation of the rotational Doppler shift of a white-light, orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam backscattered from a rotating body , 2014 .

[47]  Miles J. Padgett,et al.  An acoustic spanner and its associated rotational Doppler shift , 2008 .

[48]  Alexander Jesacher,et al.  Spiral interferometry. , 2005, Optics letters.

[49]  S. Barnett,et al.  Detection of a Spinning Object Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum , 2013, Science.

[50]  S. Bernet,et al.  What spatial light modulators can do for optical microscopy , 2011 .

[51]  I. Bialynicki-Birula,et al.  Rotational Frequency Shift , 1997 .

[52]  Duncan A. Robertson,et al.  Measurement of the Rotational Frequency Shift Imparted to a Rotating Light Beam Possessing Orbital Angular Momentum , 1998 .

[53]  Gabriel Molina-Terriza,et al.  Management of the angular momentum of light: preparation of photons in multidimensional vector states of angular momentum. , 2002, Physical review letters.

[54]  A. Vaziri,et al.  Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons , 2001, Nature.

[55]  J. P. Woerdman,et al.  Astigmatic laser mode converters and transfer of orbital angular momentum , 1993 .

[56]  M J Padgett,et al.  Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner. , 1997, Optics letters.

[57]  Marco W. Beijersbergen,et al.  Helical-wavefront laser beams produced with a spiral phaseplate , 1994 .

[58]  M. Padgett,et al.  Equivalent geometric transformations for spin and orbital angular momentum of light , 2007 .

[59]  Jabez J. McClelland,et al.  Electron Vortex Beams with High Quanta of Orbital Angular Momentum , 2011, Science.

[60]  Karen Volke-Sepúlveda,et al.  Transfer of angular momentum to matter from acoustical vortices in free space. , 2008, Physical review letters.

[61]  Laird M Close,et al.  Astronomical demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph. , 2008, Optics express.

[62]  Robert W Boyd,et al.  Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light , 2013, Nature Communications.

[63]  Jan Masajada,et al.  Optical vortex generation by three plane wave interference , 2001 .

[64]  He,et al.  Direct observation of transfer of angular momentum to absorptive particles from a laser beam with a phase singularity. , 1995, Physical review letters.

[65]  M. Vasnetsov,et al.  Analysis of orbital angular momentum of a misaligned optical beam , 2005 .

[66]  A. Willner,et al.  Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing , 2012, Nature Photonics.