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ArticleScience advances2024

Spatiotemporal vortex strings.

Shunlin Huang, Ziwei Li, Jiawei Li, Ning Zhang, Xu Lu, Konstantin Dorfman, Jun Liu, Jinping Yao

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Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  2. Spatiotemporal optical vortex combs.Nature communications · 2025
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  7. Spatiotemporal Moiré lattice light fields.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Shunlin HuangState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9404-5768
Ziwei LiSchool of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7631-989X
Jiawei LiAerospace Laser Technology and Systems Department, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.
Ning ZhangState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8057-0286
Xu LuState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5630-0235
Konstantin DorfmanCenter for Theoretical Physics and School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
Jun LiuState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9663-3317
Jinping YaoState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5063-4621

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) holds unique properties and boosts myriad applications in diverse fields. However, the generation of an ultrafast wave packet carrying numerous vortices with various transverse OAM modes, i.e., vortex string, remains challenging, and the corresponding detection method is lacking. Here, we demonstrate that a vortex string with 28 spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) with customizable topological charge (TC) arrangements can be generated in one wave packet. The diffraction rules of STOV strings are revealed theoretically and experimentally. Following these rules, the TC values and positions of all STOVs in a vortex string can be simultaneously recognized from the diffraction pattern. Such STOV strings facilitate STOV-based optical communication. As a proof-of-principle demonstration, the transmission of an image is realized with 16-STOV strings. This work provides guidance for revealing the underlying properties of the transverse OAM light and opens up opportunities for applications of the structured light in optical communication, quantum information processing, etc.

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