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Spatio-temporal optical vortices (STOVs)

https://lasermatter.umd.edu/research/spatiotemporal-optical-vortices

“We have discovered the formation of “smoke ring” -like vortices that travel along with the laser pulse and control its global energy flow, a universal phenomenon underlying strong field laser propagation. Top, a Laguerre Gaussian mode has phase circulation around a null at the beam axis. Bottom, a...” (from the page’s text)

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