Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Time diffraction-free transverse orbital angular momentum beams

  • Wei Chen,
  • Wang Zhang,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Fan-Chao Meng,
  • John M. Dudley,
  • Yan-Qing Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31623-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It remains unclear whether transverse orbital angular momentum beams can maintain OAM values above 1. Here the authors demonstrate the generation of beams with transverse OAM up to 100 by the inverse design of phase and find an intrinsic dispersion factor to describe the nontrivial evolution of such beams.