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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 126, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.243601
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Experimental generation of spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses with purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum has prompted an accurate theoretical analysis, including scalar and vector spatiotemporal Bessel-type solutions and descriptions of their properties. The study calculated local densities and integral values of spin and orbital angular momenta, predicting observable spin-orbit interaction phenomena. The analysis can be extended to other types of spatiotemporal vortex pulses, such as acoustic ones.
Recently, spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses carrying a purely transverse intrinsic orbital angular momentum were generated experimentally [Optica 6, 1547 (2019); Nat. Photonics 14, 350 (2020)]. However, an accurate theoretical analysis of such states and their angular-momentum properties remains elusive. Here, we provide such analysis, including scalar and vector spatiotemporal Bessel-type solutions as well as description of their propagational, polarization, and angular-momentum properties. Most importantly, we calculate both local densities and integral values of the spin and orbital angular momenta, and predict observable spin-orbit interaction phenomena related to the coupling between the transverse spin and orbital angular momentum. Our analysis is readily extended to spatiotemporal vortex pulses of other natures (e.g., acoustic).
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