Jörg Götte

Senior Lecturer (University of Glasgow)

Special issue

Special issue

A joint special issue on Twisted Wave and Fields for the Journals of Optics and Physics B is currently in progress.

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Books

The Angular Momentum of Light

The book The Angular Momentum of Light contains two chapters written by Steve Barnett and me on vortex beams and the quantum formulation of orbital angular momentum.

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Latest publication

Noninterfering superpositions of up to six plane waves

Our work on superposition of more than three plane waves without interference in the electrical field has been published in Optica.

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Journal publications

Submitted manuscriptcs

  1. S Gao, JB Götte, F Speirits, N Radwell, S Franke-Arnold and SM Barnett
    Skyrmionic Beams  
    submitted to Optica (2019)
    arXiv:1906.05333
  2. J Michl, I Jacobi, J Enderlein, J Wachtrup, J Götte and I Gerhardt
    A Diamond Nanoscale Reference for Super-Resolution Microscopy  
    submitted to Nature Photonics (2019)

Published articles

  1. S Gao, JB Götte, F Speirits, N Radwell, S Franke-Arnold and SM Barnett
    Paraxial Skyrmionic Beams  
    Physical Review A 102 053513 (2020)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.053513   •   PDF   •  
  2. CKelly, DA MacLaren, K McKay, A McFarlane, AS Karimullah, N Gadegaard, LD Barron, S Franke-Arnold, F Crimin, JB Götte and SM Barnett & M Kadodwala
    Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality  
    Nature Communications 11 5169 (2020)   •   doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18869-9   •   PDF   •  
  3. K van Kruining, F Mackenroth and JB Götte
    Radiative spin polarization in an ultrastrong magnetic field  
    Physical Review D 100 056014 (2019)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.056014   •   PDF   •  
  4. F Crimin, N Mackinnon, JB Götte and S M Barnett
    On the conservation of helicity in a chiral medium   OA
    Journal of Optics 21 094003 (2019)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ab387c   •   PDF   •  
  5. M V Berry et al.
    Roadmap on Superoscillations   OA
    Journal of Optics 21, 053002 (2019)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8986/ab0191   •   PDF   •  
  6. F Crimin, N Mackinnon, JB Götte and S M Barnett
    Optical Helicity and Chirality: Conservation and Sources   OA
    Applied Sciences 9, 828 (2019)   •   doi: 10.3390/app9050828   •   PDF   •  
  7. K van Kruining, R P Cameron and JB Götte
    Noninterfering superpositions of up to six plane waves   OA
    Optica 5, 1091 (2018)   •   doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.001091   •   PDF   •  
  8. AG Hayrapetyan, SP Klevansky and JB Götte
    Instantaneous modulations in time-varying complex optical potentials   OA
    New Journal of Physics 19, 105002 (2017)   •   doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa8245   •   PDF   •  
  9. K van Kruining, AG Hayrapetyan and JB Götte
    Nonuniform currents and spins of relativistic electron vortices in a magnetic field
    Physical Review Letters 119, 030401 (2017)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.030401   •   PDF   •  
  10. RP Cameron, JB Götte, SM Barnett and AM Yao
    Chirality and the angular momentum of light   OA
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 375, 20150433 (2017)   •   doi: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0433   •   PDF   •  
  11. RP Cameron, JB Götte and SM Barnett
    Chiral rotational spectroscopy   OA
    Physical Review A 94, 032505 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.032505   •   PDF   •  
  12. RP Cameron, JB Götte, SM Barnett and JP Cotter
    Matter-wave grating distinguishing conservative and dissipative interactions
    Physical Review A 94, 013604 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.013604   •   PDF   •  
  13. K van Kruining and JB Götte
    The conditions for the preservation of duality symmetry in a linear medium
    Journal of Optics 18, 085601 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/8/085601   •   PDF   •  
  14. AG Hayrapetyan, JB Götte, KG Grigoryan, S Fritzsche and RG Petrosyan
    Electromagnetic wave propagation in spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-varying dielectric media
    Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 178, 158 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2015.12.007   •   PDF   •  
  15. LB Ma, SL Li, VM Fomin, M Hentschel, JB Götte, Y Yin, M R Jorgensen and OG Schmidt
    Spin-orbit coupling of light in asymmetric microcavities   OA
    Nature Communications 7, 10983 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1038/ncomms10983   •   PDF   •  
  16. N Radwell, R Hawley, JB Götte and S Franke-Arnold
    Achromatic vector vortex beams from a glass cone   OA
    Nature Communications 7, 10564 (2016)   •   doi: 10.1038/ncomms10564   •   PDF   •  
  17. AG Hayrapetyan, KK Grigoryan, JB Götte and RG Petrosyan
    Kapitza-Dirac effect with traveling light waves   OA
    New Journal of Physics 17, 082002 (2015)   •   doi: 110.1088/1367-2630/17/8/082002   •   PDF   •  
  18. JB Götte, W Löffler and MR Dennis
    Eigenpolarizations for giant transverse optical beam shifts
    Physical Review Letters 112, 233901 (2014)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.233901   •   PDF   •  
  19. R Kammel, R Ackermann, J Thomas, J Götte, S Skupin, A Tünnermann and S Nolte
    Enhancing precision in fs-laser material processing by simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing   OA
    Light: Science & Applications 3, e169 (2014)   •   doi: 10.1038/lsa.2014.50   •   PDF   •  
  20. JB Götte and MR Dennis
    Limits to superweak amplification of optical beamshifts
    Optics Letters 38, 2295 (2013)   •   doi: 10.1364/OL.38.002295   •   PDF   •  
  21. MR Dennis and JB Götte
    Beam shifts for pairs of plane wavesIOPselect
    Journal of Optics 15, 014015 (2013)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/1/014015   •   PDF
    Selected as Journal of Optics "Highlight of 2013"   •  
  22. JB Götte, S Shinohara and M Hentschel
    Are Fresnel filtering and the angular Goos-Hänchen shift the same?
    Journal of Optics 15, 014009 (2013)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/1/014009   •   PDF
    Selected as Journal of Optics "Highlight of 2013"   •  
  23. MR Dennis and JB Götte
    Topological Aberration of Optical Vortex Beams and Singularimetry of Dielectric Interfaces
    Physical Review Letters 109, 183903 (2012)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.183903   •   PDF   •  
  24. JB Götte and MR Dennis
    Generalized shifts and weak values for polarization components of reflected light beams   OA
    New Journal of Physics 14, 073016 (2012)   •   doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073016   •   PDF   •  
  25. MR Dennis and JB Götte
    The analogy between optical beam shifts and quantum weak measurements   OA
    New Journal of Physics 14, 073013 (2012)   •   doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073013   •   PDF   •  
  26. MR Dennis, JB Götte, RP King, MA Morgan and MA Alonso
    Paraxial and nonparaxial polynomial beams and the analytics approach to propagation
    Optics Letters 36, 4452 (2011)   •   doi: 10.1364/OL.36.004452   •   PDF   •  
  27. X Hong, EMPH van Dijk, SR Hall, JB Götte, NF van Hulst and H Gersen
    Background-free Detection of Single 5nm Nanoparticles through Interferometric Cross-Polarization Microscopy   OA
    Nanoletters 11, 541 (2011)   •   doi: 10.1021/nl1034489   •   PDF   •  
  28. M Merano, JB Götte, A Aiello, MP van Exter and JP Woerdman
    Goos-Hächen shift for a rough metallic mirror   OA
    Optics Express 17, 10864 (2009)   •   doi: 10.1364/OE.17.010864   •   PDF   •  
  29. J Leach, AJ Wright, JB Götte, JM Girkin, L Allen, S Franke-Arnold, SM Barnett and MJ Padgett
    "Aether drag" and Moving Images
    Physical Review Letters 100, 153902 (2008)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.153902   •   PDF   •  
  30. JB Götte, A Aiello and JP Woerdman
    Loss-induced transition in the Goos-Hänchen effect for metals and dielectrics   OA
    Optics Express 16, 3961 (2008)   •   doi: 10.1364/OE.16.003961   •   PDF   •  
  31. JB Götte, K O’Holleran, D Preece, F Flossmann, S Franke Arnold, SM Barnett and MJ Padgett
    Light beams with fractional orbital angular momentum and their vortex structure   OA
    Optics Express 16, 993 (2008)   •   doi: 10.1364/OE.16.000993   •   PDF   •  
  32. JB Götte, SM Barnett and MJ Padgett
    On the dragging of light by a rotating medium   OA
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A 463, 2815 (2007)   •   doi: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1871   •   PDF   •  
  33. JB Götte, S Franke-Arnold, R Zambrini and SM Barnett
    Quantum Formulation of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum
    Journal of Modern Optics 54, 1723 (2007)   •   doi: 10.1080/09500340601156827   •   PDF   •  
  34. JB Götte, PM Radmore, R Zambrini and SM Barnett
    Angular minimum uncertainty states with large uncertainties
    Journal of Physics B 39, 2791 (2006)   •   doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/39/12/013   •   PDF   •  
  35. JB Götte, S Franke-Arnold and SM Barnett
    Angular EPR paradox
    Journal of Modern Optics 53, 627 (2006)   •   doi: 10.1080/009500340500227075   •   PDF   •  
  36. JB Götte, R Zambrini, S Franke-Arnold and SM Barnett
    Large-uncertainty intelligent states for angular momentum and angle
    Journal of Optics B 7, S563 (2005)   •   doi: 10.1088/1464-4266/7/12/019   •   PDF   •  

    Corrigendum Large-uncertainty intelligent states for angular momentum and angle
    Journal of Physics B 39, 2315 (2006)   •   doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/39/9/C01   •   PDF   •  
  37. A Zeiser, N Böcking, JB Götte, J Förster, P Hahn, WG Schmidt and A Knorr
    Dynamics of the phonon induced electron transfer between semiconductor bulk and surface states
    Physics status solidi (b) 241, R60 (2004)   •   doi: 10.1002/pssb.200409060   •   PDF   •  

Proceedings articles

  1. F Crimin, N Mackinnon, JB Götte and S M Barnett
    Continuous symmetries and conservation laws in chiral media
    Proceedings of SPIE 11297, Complex Light and Optical Forces XIV, 112970J (2020);   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2550815   •  
  2. JB Götte, RP Cameron and SM Barnett
    Orientated molecular information from chiral rotational spectroscopy
    Proceedings of SPIE 10120, Complex Light and Optical Forces XI, 101200N (2017);   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2253633   •  
  3. D Jukić, T Pohl and JB Götte
    Evanescent fields of laser written waveguides
    Proceedings of SPIE 9379, Complex Light and Optical Forces IX, 93790R (2015);   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2077189   •  
  4. MR Dennis and JB Götte
    Beam shifts to reflected light beams and their axial structure
    Proceedings of SPIE 9441, 19th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 94410M (2014)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2086612   •  
  5. JB Götte
    Weak measurements with non-integer orbital angular momentum states
    Proceedings of SPIE 8999, Complex Light and Optical Forces VIII, 899917 (2014)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2041671   •  
  6. JB Götte and MR Dennis
    Spin-orbit interactions in vortex singularimetry
    Proceedings of SPIE 8813, Spintronics VI, 88130Z (2013)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.2022760   •  
  7. JB Götte and MR Dennis
    Probing quantum cores of optical vortices with atoms
    Proceedings of SPIE 7950, Complex Light and Optical Forces V, 79500U (2011)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.876882   •  
  8. MR Dennis and JB Götte
    Scalar Goos-Hänchen shift for Robin boundary conditions
    Proceedings of SPIE 7950, Complex Light and Optical Forces V, 79500J (2011)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.877138   •  
  9. MJ Padgett, J Leach, S Franke-Arnold, JB Götte, L Allen, AJ Wright, JM Girkin and SM Barnett
    The lateral displacement of a moving image on transmission through a stationary glass window
    Proceedings of SPIE 6664, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? 66640D (2007)   •   doi: 10.1117/12.735556   •  
  10. JB Götte, S Franke-Arnold and SM Barnett
    Angular EPR paradox
    AIP Conference Proceedings 734, 273 (2004)   •   doi: 10.1063/1.1834433   •  

Book reviews

  1. JB Götte
    Principles of Nano-Optics, 2nd ed., by Lukas Novotny and Bert Hecht
    Contemporary Physics 54, 123 (2013)   •   doi: 10.1080/00107514.2013.800150   •  
  2. JB Götte
    Analytical Mechanics by Oliver David Johns
    Contemporary Physics 53, 385 (2012)   •   doi: 10.1080/00107514.2012.689343   •  
  3. JB Götte
    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory: A Mathematical Primer, by Jonathan Dimock
    Contemporary Physics 52, 628 (2011)   •   doi: 10.1080/00107514.2011.604430   •  
  4. JB Götte
    Intermediate Spectral Theory and Quantum Dynamics, by C.R. de Oliveira
    Contemporary Physics 52, 255 (2011)   •   doi: 10.1080/00107514.2010.546888   •  

Other publications

  1. J Leach, A J Wright, JB Götte, JM Girkin, L Allen, S Franke Arnold, SM Barnett and MJ Padgett Leach et al. reply Physical Review Letters 122, 139402 (2019)   •   doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.139402   •   PDF   •  
  2. JB Götte, M Hentschel and W Löffler
    Editorial Beyond catoptrics   OA
    Journal of Optics 15, 010301 (2013)   •   doi: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/1/010301   •  
  3. J Leach, JB Götte, L Allen, MJ Padgett, AJ Wright, JM Girkin, SM Barnett
    News item The world through a spinning window
    SPIE Newsroom, 5 November 2007   •   doi: 10.1117/2.1200710.0887   •  

Books & Book chapters

  1. RP Cameron, JB Götte and SM Barnett
    Chiral rotational spectroscopy in "Chiral Analysis: Advances in Spectroscopy, Chromatography and Emerging Methods" (PL Polavarapu ed.)
    Elsevier (2017)   •   isbn: tbd
  2. JB Götte and SM Barnett
    Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum in "The Angular Momentum of Light" (DL Andrews and M Babiker eds.)
    Cambridge University Press (2012)   •   isbn: 9781107006348
  3. JB Götte and SM Barnett
    Quantum formulation of angle and orbital angular momentum in "The Angular Momentum of Light" (DL Andrews and M Babiker eds.)
    Cambridge University Press (2012)   •   isbn: 9781107006348

Special issues

  1. JB Götte, E Karimi, M Ornigotti and S Roux
    Joint Special issue on Twisted waves and fields
    Journals of Optics and Physics B (2019)
  2. JB Götte, M Hentschel and W Löffler
    Special issue on Beam shifts
    Journal of Optics 15, Issue 1 (2013)