• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 5, Issue 6, 066007 (2023)
Feng Li1, Sergei V. Koniakhin2、3, Anton V. Nalitov4、5、6, Evgeniia Cherotchenko7, Dmitry D. Solnyshkov8、9, Guillaume Malpuech8, Min Xiao10、11, Yanpeng Zhang1, and Zhaoyang Zhang1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Xi’an Jiaotong University, Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronics and Information, Xi’an, China
  • 2Institute for Basic Science, Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  • 3Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), Basic Science Program, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  • 4Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, Russia
  • 5University of Wolverhampton, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
  • 6ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 7Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 8Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, CNRS, Clermont INP, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • 9Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
  • 10University of Arkansas, Department of Physics, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
  • 11Nanjing University, School of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.5.6.066007 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Feng Li, Sergei V. Koniakhin, Anton V. Nalitov, Evgeniia Cherotchenko, Dmitry D. Solnyshkov, Guillaume Malpuech, Min Xiao, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang. Simultaneous creation of multiple vortex-antivortex pairs in momentum space in photonic lattices[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(6): 066007 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Engineering of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light due to interaction with photonic lattices reveals rich physics and motivates potential applications. We report the experimental creation of regularly distributed quantized vortex arrays in momentum space by probing the honeycomb and hexagonal photonic lattices with a single focused Gaussian beam. For the honeycomb lattice, the vortices are associated with Dirac points. However, we show that the resulting spatial patterns of vortices are strongly defined by the symmetry of the wave packet evolving in the photonic lattices and not by their topological properties. Our findings reveal the underlying physics by connecting the symmetry and OAM conversion and provide a simple and efficient method to create regularly distributed multiple vortices from unstructured light.
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    Feng Li, Sergei V. Koniakhin, Anton V. Nalitov, Evgeniia Cherotchenko, Dmitry D. Solnyshkov, Guillaume Malpuech, Min Xiao, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang. Simultaneous creation of multiple vortex-antivortex pairs in momentum space in photonic lattices[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(6): 066007
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