Angular Momentum of Light
Over the last few decades, angular momentum of light has attracted increasing interest from many research groups. This comes without surprise, considering the widespread range of applications related to the classical and quantum implications of this property of light in fields like optical forces and torque, quantum optics, microscopy, etc. Also, a large variety of devices and techniques continue to be developed to progress in the manipulation and structuring of angular momentum as versatile degree of freedom of light. This Special Topic aims at showcasing the latest progresses in theory and experiments related to the angular momentum of light.
Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Structured light & Complex fields
- Light-matter interaction
- Spin-orbit coupling, Chirality
- Topological fields
- Applications: Sensing, Communications, Spectroscopy, materials processing, Microscopy, Quantum optics, quantum sensing and processing
- Classical and quantum communications
- Spatiotemporal light beams
- Optical forces & trapping
- Non-hermiticity
- 2D materials
- Epsilon-Near-Zero materials and metamaterials
- XUV
- high-harmonics
- THz beams
- Integrated photonics
- Self-torque
- time-varying optical angular momentum
Guest Editors
Antonio Ambrosio, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Francois Courvoisier, FEMTO-ST institute, Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS
Marco Ornigotti, Tampere University