Abstract
Recent work has shown that irradiation with light possessing orbital angular momentum (OAM) and an associated phase singularity, that is an optical vortex, twists a variety of materials. These include silicon, azo-polymer, and even liquid-phase resins to form various helically structured materials. This article provides a review of the unique helical-structured materials created and the novel fundamental phenomena enabled by this interaction between both the spin angular momentum and the OAM of light with matter. Such light-induced helical-structured materials will potentially lead to advanced photonic devices, for instance, metamaterials for ultrasensitive detection and reactions for chiral chemical composites.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1801672 |
| Journal | Advanced Optical Materials |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 14 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 Jul 18 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors acknowledge support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grants (JP 16H06507, JP 17K19070, and JP 18H03884). The authors thank the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for support through Grant No. EP/P030017/1. We would like to thank Ms Akiko Sato, University of Tokyo for illustrating TOC and cover images. We also thank Dr. Graham Bruce, University of St Andrews for useful discussion.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics