• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 8, 1268 (2020)
Lipeng Feng1, Yan Li1、*, Sihan Wu1, Xun Guan2, Chen Yang3, Weijun Tong3, Wei Li1, Jifang Qiu1, Xiaobin Hong1, Yong Zuo1, Hongxiang Guo1, Erhu Chen4, and Jian Wu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Optical Fibre and Cable Manufacture Technology, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 4Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications Technology, Beijing 100094, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.385007 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Lipeng Feng, Yan Li, Sihan Wu, Xun Guan, Chen Yang, Weijun Tong, Wei Li, Jifang Qiu, Xiaobin Hong, Yong Zuo, Hongxiang Guo, Erhu Chen, Jian Wu. All-fiber generation of arbitrary cylindrical vector beams on the first-order Poincaré sphere[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(8): 1268 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose a linear mapping relationship between the polarization of the fundamental mode and the cylindrical vector (CV) modes on the first-order Poincaré sphere (FOPS) in fiber. The new method is based on the four-dimensional complex Jones matrices in terms of the linearly polarized mode bases. With our theoretical model, an all-fiber approach to generate arbitrary CV beams on the FOPS is proposed theoretically and verified experimentally. In the experiment, through the combination of a mode converter and a two-segment cascaded few-mode fiber with fixed stresses, it is possible to generate all CV modes on the FOPS by only adjusting the polarization of the fundamental mode. The Stokes parameters of the output light are measured to verify our scheme, which shows good agreement with the theoretical prediction. The method may provide a convenient way to generate CV beams and evolve the polarization states in any path on the FOPS, which is expected to have potential applications in encoding information and quantum computation.
    |E0=cos(υ2)|σ++sin(υ2)eiϕ|σ,(1)

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    |E0=[Eσ+Eσ]T=[cos(υ2)sin(υ2)eiϕ]T.(2)

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    |E0=[ExEy]=12[11ii][Eσ+Eσ].(3)

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    |E0=[EgEd]=[cos(γ/2)sin(γ/2)sin(γ/2)cos(γ/2)][ExEy],(4)

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    |E=cos(υ2)|σ+OAM+sin(υ2)eiϕ|σOAM+,(5)

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    |E=[Eσ+OAMEσOAM+]T=[cos(υ2)sin(υ2)eiϕ]T.(6)

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    |Eout=[EmagEmbgEmadEmbd]out=R(αn)PnR(αn)R(α1)P1R(α1)[EmagEmbgEmadEmbd]in,(7)

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    R(αn)=[cos(αn)cosαnsin(αn)cosαncos(αn)sinαnsin(αn)sinαnsin(αn)cosαncos(αn)cosαnsin(αn)sinαncos(αn)sinαncos(αn)sinαnsin(αn)sinαncos(αn)cosαnsin(αn)cosαnsin(αn)sinαncos(αn)sinαnsin(αn)cosαncos(αn)cosαn],(8)

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    Pn=[ei(δagbdF,S)n0000ei(δbgbdF,S)n0000ei(δadbdF,S)n00001],(9)

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    |Eout=[Eσ+OAM+EσOAM+Eσ+OAMEσOAM]=12[1ii11ii11ii11ii1][EmagEmbgEmadEmbd]out,(10)

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    |Ein=[EgEd]=12eiγ/2[1eiγiieiγ][cos(υ2)sin(υ2)eiϕ].(11)

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    |EMC=[E11agE11bgE11adE11bd]=eiγ/2[cos(υ2)+sin(υ2)ei(ϕ+γ)0i[cos(υ2)sin(υ2)ei(ϕ+γ)]0].(12)

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    |Eout=[E11agE11bgE11adE11bd]T=R(π2)[eiπ20000eiπ0000eiπ200001]R(π2)·R(π4)[eiπ0000eiπ20000eiπ200001]R(π4)|EMC=24[01i1+i01+i001+i1i001+i01+i1+i0]|EMC.(13)

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    |Eout(oam)=[Eσ+OAM+1EσOAM+1Eσ+OAM1EσOAM1]T=12[1ii11ii11ii11ii1]|Eout=24[01i01i1+i01+i01i01+i001i01+i]|EMC=ei(54πγ2)[0sin(υ2)ei(ϕπ+γ)cos(υ2)0]T.(14)

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    |Eout=ei5π4[cos(υ2)|σ+OAM1+sin(υ2)ei(ϕπ+γ)|σOAM+1].(15)

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    S1=I(0°,0°)I(90°,90°)/S0,S2=I(45°,45°)I(135°,135°)/S0,S3=I(45°,0°)I(45°,0°)/S0,(16)

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    ϑ=12arcsin(S2/S1),χ=12arcsin(S3).(17)

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    Lipeng Feng, Yan Li, Sihan Wu, Xun Guan, Chen Yang, Weijun Tong, Wei Li, Jifang Qiu, Xiaobin Hong, Yong Zuo, Hongxiang Guo, Erhu Chen, Jian Wu. All-fiber generation of arbitrary cylindrical vector beams on the first-order Poincaré sphere[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(8): 1268
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