• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 12, 122601 (2020)
Yue Pan1、*, Xu-Zhen Gao1, Rende Ma1, Chenghou Tu2, Yongnan Li2, and Hui-Tian Wang3、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Physical Engineering, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Polarization and Information Technology, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
  • 2School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 3National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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    Yue Pan, Xu-Zhen Gao, Rende Ma, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang. Tunable azimuthally non-uniform orbital angular momentum carried by vector optical fields[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(12): 122601 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Orbital angular momentum (OAM), as a fundamental parameter of a photon, has attracted great attention in recent years. Although various properties and applications have been developed by modulating the OAM of photons, there is rare research about the non-uniform OAM. We propose and generate a new kind of continuously tunable azimuthally non-uniform OAM for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, which is carried by a hybridly polarized vector optical field with a cylindrically symmetric intensity profile and a complex polarization singularity. We also present the perfect vector optical field carrying non-uniform OAM with a fixed radius independent of topological charges, which can propagate steadily without radial separation, solving the problem of the unsteady propagation due to the broadened OAM spectrum of the non-uniform OAM. This new kind of tunable non-uniform OAM with a cylindrical symmetric intensity profile, complex polarization singularity, and propagation stability enriches the family of OAMs and can be widely used in many regions such as optical manipulation, quantum optics, and optical communications.
    Lz(2)=Im(ααϕ+ββϕ).(1)

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    ET=[UA(ϕ)eimϕe^x+UB(ϕ)eimϕe^y]eikz,(2)

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    Lz(2)=Im(ααϕ+ββϕ)=m[2|UA(ϕ)|21],(3)

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    UA(ϕ)=1a+b+1a+cos2(nϕ),(4a)

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    UB(ϕ)=1a+b+1b+sin2(nϕ),(4b)

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    Lz(2)=mab+cos(2nϕ)a+b+1,(5)

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    Ul=12πππUA(ϕ)eimϕeilϕdϕ.(6)

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    Yue Pan, Xu-Zhen Gao, Rende Ma, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang. Tunable azimuthally non-uniform orbital angular momentum carried by vector optical fields[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(12): 122601
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