• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 16, Issue 9, 092601 (2018)
Hao Zhang, Lei Yao, Yuyan Pang, and Jun Xia*
Author Affiliations
  • Joint International Research Laboratory of Information Display and Visualization, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201816.092601 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hao Zhang, Lei Yao, Yuyan Pang, Jun Xia. Flexible and high-efficiency generation of arbitrary vector vortex beams on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(9): 092601 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose theoretically and verify experimentally a compact optical configuration to directly generate arbitrary vector vortex beams on a hybrid-order Poincaré sphere with good flexibility and high efficiency based on a reflective phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM). The conversion system, consisting of an LC-SLM and a quarter-wave plate, can be considered a flexible dielectric metasurface to simultaneously modulate inhomogeneous polarization and helical phase-front. This approach has some advantages, including a simple experimental setup, good flexibility, and high efficiency. Orthogonally polarized modes alignment and an explicit superposition existing in the conventional method are not necessary in the proposed method, which exhibits potential applications in many advanced domains.
    |ψl,m(θ,ϕ)=cos(θ2)|Rexp(ilφiϕ2)+sin(θ2)|Lexp(imφ+iϕ2),(1)

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    |ψl,m(θ,ϕ)=exp(iBφ){cos(θ2)|Rexp[i(Aφ+ϕ2)]+sin(θ2)|Lexp[i(Aφ+ϕ2)]},(2)

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    Jp=[cosφ0sinφ0],(3)

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    JQWP(θ)=[cos2θ+isin2θcosθsinθ(1j)cosθsinθ(1j)sin2θ+icos2θ],(4)

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    E1=JQWP(0°)Jp=[cosφ0isinφ0].(5)

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    JSLM=[exp[ine(V)kd]00exp(inokd)][1001][exp[ine(V)kd]00exp(inokd)]=A0[exp[iδ(V)]001],(6)

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    Jconver=JQWP(45°)JSLMJQWP(135°)=A0exp[iδ(V)2][sin[δ(V)2]cos[δ(V)2]cos[δ(V)2]sin[δ(V)2]]=A0exp[iδ(V)2]R[δ(V)2π2],(7)

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    Jconver=exp[i(Nθ+δ02)]R(Nθ+δ02π2).(8)

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    Eout=JconverE1=exp[i(Nθ+δ02)]{cosa|Rexp[i(Nθ2+b)]+sina|Lexp[i(Nθ2+b)]},(9)

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    S1=I(0°,0°)I(90°,90°),(10)

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    S2=I(45°,45°)I(135°,135°),(11)

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    S3=I(45°,0°)I(45°,0°).(12)

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    Hao Zhang, Lei Yao, Yuyan Pang, Jun Xia. Flexible and high-efficiency generation of arbitrary vector vortex beams on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2018, 16(9): 092601
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