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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Quantum Information Science

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  • Vortices are common in nature, from Bose-Einstein condensations to spiral galaxies.
  • Optical vortices carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), which can be longitudinal or transverse.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the intersection of spatiotemporal and spatial vortices within a wave packet.
  • To investigate the properties of the resulting tilted orbital angular momentum.

Main Methods:

  • Creating and overlapping spatial and spatiotemporal optical vortices.
  • Analyzing the wave packet structure and its carried OAM.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated a wave packet exhibiting a tilted OAM.
  • The tilted OAM arises from the intersection of different vortex types.

Conclusions:

  • The demonstrated tilted OAM provides an additional degree of freedom for optical applications.
  • This finding expands the toolkit for manipulating the orbital angular momentum of light.