Keyword

phase singularities

Description: Points or lines in a wave field where phase is undefined, typically because the field amplitude vanishes, studied in optics and wave physics.

Primary topic: Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (45%)

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Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities

2019 · Yijie Shen, Xuejiao Wang, et al. · Light Science & Applications · 2,271

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Direct Observation of Transfer of Angular Momentum to Absorptive Particles from a Laser Beam with a Phase Singularity

1995 · H. He, M. E. J. Friese, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1,685

Helical-wavefront laser beams produced with a spiral phaseplate

1994 · M.W. Beijersbergen, R.P.C. Coerwinkel, et al. · Optics Communications · 1,594

Direct observation of transfer of angular momentum to absorptive particles from a laser beam with a phase singularity

2004 · H He, M E J Friese, et al. · Institute of Physics eBooks · 1,022

Spatial and temporal organization during cardiac fibrillation

1998 · Richard A. Gray, Arkady M. Pertsov, et al. · Nature · 958

Production and application of electron vortex beams

2010 · J. Verbeeck, H. Tian, et al. · Nature · 879

Vortex dynamics in three-dimensional continuous myocardium with fiber rotation: Filament instability and fibrillation

1998 · Flavio Fenton, Alain Karma · Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · 863

Singular optics

2001 · M.S. Soskin, M.V. Vasnetsov · Progress in optics · 858

Advances in communications using optical vortices

2016 · Jian Wang · Photonics Research · 840

Generation of electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum

2010 · Masaya Uchida, Akira Tonomura · Nature · 781

Optical trapping with structured light: a review

2021 · Yuanjie Yang, Yuxuan Ren, et al. · Advanced Photonics · 778

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Chapter 5 Singular Optics: Optical Vortices and Polarization Singularities

2009 · Mark R. Dennis, Kevin O'Holleran, et al. · Progress in optics · 748

Topological charge and angular momentum of light beams carrying optical vortices

1997 · M. S. Soskin, V. N. Gorshkov, et al. · Physical Review A · 557

Isolated optical vortex knots

2010 · Mark R. Dennis, Robert P. King, et al. · Nature Physics · 488

Optical vortices and vortex solitons

2005 · Anton S. Desyatnikov, Yuri S. Kivshar, et al. · Progress in optics · 486

Optical vortices in fiber

2013 · Siddharth Ramachandran, Poul Kristensen · Nanophotonics · 461

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Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation

2021 · Yinghui Guo, Shicong Zhang, et al. · Light Science & Applications · 457

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Natural demodulation of two-dimensional fringe patterns I General background of the spiral phase quadrature transform

2001 · Kieran G. Larkin, Donald J. Bone, et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America A · 421

Polarization singularities in paraxial vector fields: morphology and statistics

2002 · M.R. Dennis · Optics Communications · 408

Rotors and the Dynamics of Cardiac Fibrillation

2013 · Sandeep V. Pandit, José Jalife · Circulation Research · 404

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Spiral Waves in Disinhibited Mammalian Neocortex

2004 · Xiaoying Huang, William C. Troy, et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 394

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Laser beams with phase singularities

1992 · N. R. Heckenberg, R. McDuff, et al. · Optical and Quantum Electronics · 372

Landau theory of the nematic-isotropic phase transition

1986 · Egbert F. Gramsbergen, Lech Longa, et al. · Physics Reports · 372

Transverse laser patterns. I. Phase singularity crystals

1991 · M. Brambilla, F. Battipede, et al. · Physical Review A · 353

Optical Particle Trapping with Higher-order Doughnut Beams Produced Using High Efficiency Computer Generated Holograms

1995 · H. He, N.R. Heckenberg, et al. · Journal of Modern Optics · 339

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