Editor biographies
Contributors
Preface
Part I: Fundamentals and Basics of Electromagnetic Vortices
1 Fundamentals of orbital angular momentum beams: concepts, antenna analogies, and applications
Anastasios Papathanasopoulos, Yahya Rahmat-Samii
2 OAM radio--physical foundations and applications of electromagnetic orbital angular momentum in radio science and technology
Bo Thidé, Fabrizio Tamburini
Part II: Physical Wave Phenomena of Electromagnetic Vortices
3 Generation of microwave vortex beams using metasurfaces
Jia Yuan Yin, Tie Jun Cui
4 Application of transformation optics and 3D printing technology in vortex wave generation
Jianjia Yi, Shah Nawaz Burokur, Douglas H. Werner
5 Millimeter-wave transmit-arrays for high-capacity and wideband generation of scalar and vector vortex beams
Zhi Hao Jiang, Lei Kang, Wei Hong, Douglas H. Werner
6 Twisted light with metamaterials
Natalia Litchinitser
7 Generation of optical vortex beams
Yuanjie Yang, Cheng-Wei Qiu
8 Orbital angular momentum generation, detection and angular momentum conservation with second harmonic generation
Menglin L. N. Chen, Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong, Wei E. I. Sha, Li Jun Jiang
Part III: Engineering Applications of Electromagnetic Vortices
9 Orbital angular momentum based structured radio beams and its applications
Xianmin Zhang, Shilie Zheng, Wei E. I. Sha, Li Jun Jiang, Xiaowen Xiong, Zelin Zhu, Zhixia Wang, Yuqi Chen, Jiayu Zheng, Xinyue Wang, Menglin L. N. Chen
10 OAM multiplexing using uniform circular array and microwave circuit for short-range communication
Kentaro Murata, Naoki Honma
11 OAM communications in multipath environments
Xiaoming Chen, Wei Xue
12 High-capacity free-space communications using multiplexing of multiple OAM beams
Alan Willner, Runzhou Zhang, Kai Pang, Haoqian Song, Cong Liu, Hao Song, Xinzhou Su, Huibin Zhou, Nanzhou Hu, Zhe Zhao, Guodong Xie, Yongxiong Ren, Hao Huang, Moshe Tur
Part IV: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Electromagnetic Vortices
13 Theory of vector beams for chirality and magnetism detection of subwavelength particles
Filippo Capolino, Mina Hanifeh
14 Quantum applications of structured photons
Alessio D'Errico, Ebrahim Karimi
