Experimental demonstration of cylindrical vector spatiotemporal optical vortex

Abstract

We experimentally generate cylindrically polarized wavepackets with transverse orbital angular momentum, demonstrating the coexistence of spatiotemporal optical vortex with spatial polarization singularity. The results in this paper extend the study of spatiotemporal wavepackets to a broader scope, paving the way for its applications in various areas such as light–matter interaction, optical tweezers, spatiotemporal spin–orbit angular momentum coupling, etc.

Keywords

• photonic angular momentum
• spatiotemporal optical vortex
• transverse orbital angular momentum
• vectorial optical field