12 Part IV: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Electromagnetic Vortices 13 Theory of Vector Beams for Chirality and Magnetism Detection of Subwavelength Particles 13.1 Characterization of Azimuthally and Radially Polarized Beams 13.2 Circular Dichroism for a Particle of Subwavelength Size 13.3 Photoinduced Force Microscopy at Nanoscale 13.4 Conclusion References 14 Quantum Applications of Structured Photons 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Photonic Degrees of Freedom 14.3 Single Photon Source: SPDC 14.4 Generation and Detection of Structured Photon Quantum States 14.5 Quantum Key Distribution 14.6 Quantum Simulation with Quantum Walks 14.7 Outlook References
13 Index
14 IEEE PRESS SERIES ON ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE THEORY
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 OAM generation methods and fabricated prototypes.Table 1.2 Chronicle of milestones regarding OAM.
2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Characteristics of the linear and angular momenta.Similarities an...Table 2.2 OAM radio from near the M87* BH.Asymmetry parameterq vs. the rota...Table 2.A.1 Various vectorial products of the Riemann–Silberstein bivectorG
3 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Optimal array radius.
4 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Transferred power and crosstalk of each OAM channel [9].
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Analogy between moving object’s and electromagnetic wave’s angula...Figure 1.2 Normalized aperture field intensity distributions versus ρ/w Figure 1.3 Normalized aperture field intensity line cuts of Laguerre–Gaussia...Figure 1.4 Comparison between conventional and OAM beams. A uniformly illumi...Figure 1.5 Far‐field wavefront of (a) Airy disk and (b, c) Laguerre–Gaussian...Figure 1.6 Normalized directivities of the Airy disk pattern with aperture d...Figure 1.7 Changes of amplitude pattern shape from the reactive near‐field t...Figure 1.8 OAM possible communication links: (a) OAM to the conventional ant...Figure 1.9 OAM communication challenges: (a) receiving with a perfectly alig...Figure 1.10 A schematic of multipath effects of an OAM channel caused by spe...Figure 1.11 A satellite‐based, geostationary navigation and guidance system ...Figure 1.12 OAM shift keying (OAM‐SK) modulation. OAM‐SK takes advantage of ...Figure 1.13 OAM division multiplexing (OAM‐DM) modulation. An independent da...Figure