利用振幅光栅生成拉盖尔-高斯光束的实验研究

拉盖尔高斯(Laguerre-Gaussian,LG)光束由于其独特的相位结构和轨道角动量特性在微粒旋转操纵和信息处理等方面得到了越来越多的重视.对利用振幅型叉状衍射光栅产生LG光束进行了理论分析,采用计算全息图的方法制作了振幅型叉状衍射光栅,实验上获得了角量子数为±1的LG光束,并对光束变换过程中影响光束特性的主要因素进行了讨论. 关键词： 信息光学 拉盖尔高斯光束 计算全息光栅 光束轨道角动量     

高阶椭圆厄密–高斯光束的轨道角动量研究

从傍轴条件下光束轨道角动量的基本理论出发,根据高阶椭圆厄密–高斯光束的光场分布,运用张量方法,对高阶椭圆厄密-高斯光束轨道角动量的密度分布进行了理论分析,得到了求解该密度分布的计算公式,并在给定参量条件下作了数值模拟.进一步对光束中每个光子携带的平均轨道角动量进行了计算,发现其值随着椭圆厄密-高斯光束阶次的增大而增大,表明高阶椭圆厄密-高斯光束能够比椭圆高斯光束或拉盖尔-高斯光束提供高得多的轨道角动量.     

涡旋光束在双拉盖尔-高斯旋转腔中的非互易传输

通过构造两个线性耦合的拉盖尔-高斯旋转腔系统,实现携带轨道角动量的涡旋光束的非互易传输现象.系统中,两个拉盖尔-高斯旋转腔模通过扭力与中间的旋转镜耦合,同时两个涡旋腔场通过光纤直接耦合起来.两个强光场分别驱动不同的腔模,并利用一个弱探测场从系统一侧入射,从而对该系统两个传播方向的光响应特性进行研究.利用该系统哈密顿量和海森伯-郎之万方程,结合输入-输出关系可得到系统的输出光谱.结果表明此系统中的涡旋光束的非互易性来源于光旋转相互作用以及涡旋腔场相互作用之间的量子干涉效应.因此,可以通过调节非互易相位差来对系统的非互易传输进行调制.此外,两个涡旋光束所携带的拓扑荷比值会显著影响传输特性;在适当的拓扑荷比值下,该系统可以实现涡旋光束的单向传输.本研究成果有望用于实现理想的涡旋光隔离器.     

大气湍流信道中聚焦涡旋光束轨道角动量串扰特性

携带轨道角动量的涡旋光束作为传输信息的载体能有效提高信息传输效率,然而在传输过程中受大气湍流影响轨道角动量会发生串扰.基于螺旋谱分析理论,推导得到了聚焦拉盖尔高斯光束在各向异性大气湍流中传输时的螺旋谱解析表达式,并对比分析不同湍流和光束参数对聚焦与非聚焦拉盖尔高斯光束接收功率的影响,最后利用多相位屏法进行模拟验证.结果表明:随着传输距离、湍流强度、拓扑荷数的增大以及湍流内尺度、光束波长的减小,接收功率减小,轨道角动量串扰增大;接收孔径到达一定值时对轨道角动量串扰的影响非常小;聚焦光束比非聚焦光束的轨道角动量串扰要小.这些结果将对提高自由空间光通信的质量有一定意义.     

涡旋光束与相位全息光栅不对准时的衍射特性研究

研究了涡旋光束与相位全息光栅不对准时衍射光束的解析特性.利用理论推导的方法得出涡旋光束经相位全息光栅接收后一阶衍射光束的解析表达式.然后通过仿真分析分别得出在发生正常对准、横向偏移、角向倾斜及横向偏移和角向倾斜两者同时出现时衍射光束的质心偏移特性和中心强度变化特性.研究表明: 拉盖尔-高斯光束经相位全息光栅衍射后得到的光场表达式为合流超几何函数形式.光束与相位全息光栅间的不对准会引起衍射光束质心的偏移,而且光束质心的偏移量随入射光束偏移距离和偏离角的增加而增加,与入射光束的偏移方向和方位角无关.角向倾斜时 关键词： 拉盖尔-高斯光束 相位全息光栅 横向偏移 角向倾斜     

拉盖尔高斯光的衍射和轨道角动量的弥散

根据菲涅耳衍射积分和拉盖尔高斯光束场强分布,对拉盖高斯光束中的圆孔衍射、单缝衍射和方孔衍射进行了研究,并分析了拉盖高斯光束的相位结构对光束衍射后场分布的影响。拉盖高斯光束的相位奇点落在衍射孔中心时,由螺旋谱计算出拉盖高斯光束通过单缝和方孔衍射后的轨道角动量的弥散程度,从理论上证明了拉盖尔高斯光束通过圆孔衍射后,轨道角动量不发生弥散。     

相位片角向衍射产生拉盖尔-高斯光束的实验研究

设计了一种角向分布的相位片,利用离子束刻蚀技术加工成0和π二级的相位片.利用角向衍射理论对相位片的衍射场分析表明,衍射场为拓扑指数相反的两束拉盖尔-高斯光束的叠加场.用直径为4 mm的近平行光照射相位片,获得径向指数为零,拓扑荷相反的叠加拉盖尔-高斯光场.采用较大孔径的光束入射时,仍为拓扑荷相反的两束光的叠加,但径向指数会发生变化. 关键词： 信息光学 拉盖尔-高斯光束 相位片 离子束刻蚀     

高斯相关随机表面光散射散斑场相位奇异及其特性的理论研究

通过对二维高斯相关随机表面在远场平面上产生的散斑场及其相位的计算模拟, 发现在某一平面上除了实部零值线与虚部零值线有传统相交之外, 还有相切和重合的情况.切点和重合线也可以形成相位奇异, 并且其周围相位分布与传统的实部零值线与虚部零值线相交形成的奇点周围相位的螺旋变化不同, 呈现出对称性和不连续性的特征. 随着光波的传播, 在不同的观察面上散斑场复振幅的实部零值线和虚部零值线的相对位置经历了由相切到重合再到相交的演变过程, 相位奇异现象也随之发生变化. 关键词： 相位奇异 相位跃变 散斑场     

光学涡旋横向线动量密度的传输演化特性

对于光学涡旋特别是具有复杂拓扑结构的光学涡旋,可以通过数值计算的方法获得实验上难以准确测量的角动量分布及其传输演化特性。在略去线偏振光场线动量密度中的轴向分量的情况下可获得涡旋光场的横向线动量密度,其在光束截面上的角向分量表征了涡旋角动量的分布。通过数值模拟,研究了单束拉盖尔-高斯光束和拓扑荷不同的两束拉盖尔-高斯光束同轴叠加后在自由空间中的传播过程,获得了强度分布、相位分布和横向线动量密度在瑞利长度内的分布特征。通过分析光束横截面上强度分布和线动量密度的演化特性表明,在远离束腰处光束的衍射效应不仅降低了横向线动量密度,还会增加径向分量,因而增强了径向力学特性,减弱了角向力学特性,因此在具体实施微操控时不宜在距离束腰面较远的横截面内进行。     

强非局域非线性介质中拉盖尔-高斯型光孤子相互作用

利用强非局域非线性介质中傍轴光束传输的线性模型(修正的Snyder-Mitchell模型)讨论了两束共线(即光束中心和传输方向都相同)拉盖尔-高斯型光孤子的传输过程. 改变双光束的相对阶数和相对强度比,叠加光场在传输截面上的光强分布呈现出多样性,通过叠加的方法在该介质中产生了多环形光孤子. 一定条件下传输光束在传输过程中会出现旋转现象,叠加光场成为旋转光场,给出了旋转光束的旋转条件以及旋转速度. 进一步利用拉盖尔-高斯光束在传输过程中特有的螺旋相位特点分析了光场截面强度多样性产生的物理机理. 关键词： 强非局域非线性介质 拉盖尔-高斯型光孤子 共线传输 涡旋相位     

Linear and angular momenta in tightly focused vortex segmented beams of light(Invited Paper)

We investigate the linear momentum density of light,which can be decomposed into spin and orbital parts,in the complex three-dimensional field distributions of tightly focused vortex segmented beams.The chosen angular spectrum exhibits two spatially separated vortices of opposite charge and orthogonal circular polarization to generate phase vortices in a meridional plane of observation.In the vicinity of those vortices,regions of negative orbital linear momentum occur.Besides these phase vortices,the occurrence of transverse orbital angular momentum manifests in a vortex charge-dependent relative shift of the energy density and linear momentum density.     

Fraunhofer diffraction of light with orbital angular momentum by a slit

We study the Fraunhofer diffraction problem while taking into account the orbital angular momentum of light. In this case, the phase singularity of the light beam is incident on the slit in two different cases: in one, it is incident slightly above the slit, and in the other it is centered on the slit. We observed that the symmetry and the fringe formation in the interference pattern strongly depend on the amount of orbital angular momentum and the slit position in relation to the beam.     

The propagation of a polarized gaussian beam in a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium

In the frame of the eikonal-based complex geometrical optics, which describes the phase front and cross section of a light beam using the quadratic expansion of a complex-valued eikonal, we investigate the transverse deflections of a polarized Gaussian beam (GB) in a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium, which is called the spin Hall effect of the beam. The linear complex-valued eikonal terms are introduced firstly to describe the polarization-dependent transverse shifts of the beam in the inhomogeneous medium. We find that the polarization-dependent transverse shifts of the beams include two parts: one originates from the coupling between the spin angular momentum and the extrinsic orbital angular momentum due to the curve trajectory of the center of gravity of the polarized GB, and the other from the coupling between the spin angular momentum and the intrinsic orbital angular momentum due to the rotation of the beam with respect to the central ray.     

A simple analytical model of the angular momentum transformation in strongly focused light beams

A ray-optics model is proposed to describe the vector beam transformation in a strongly focusing optical system. In contrast to usual approaches based on the focused field distribution near the focal plane, we use the beam pattern formed immediately after the exit aperture. In this cross section, details of the output field distribution are of minor physical interest but proper allowance is made for transformation of the beam polarization state. This enables the spin and orbital angular momentum representations to be obtained, which are valid for any cross section of the transformed beam. Simple analytical results are available for a transversely homogeneous, circularly polarized incident beam confined by a circular aperture. Variations of the spin and orbital angular momenta of the output beam with change of the focusing strength are analyzed. The analytical results are in good qualitative and reasonable quantitative agreement with the results of numerical calculations performed for the Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The model supplies an efficient and physically transparent means for qualitative analysis of the spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. It can be generalized to incident beams with complex spatial and polarization structure.     

Generation of light carrying orbital angular momentum via induced coherence grating in cold atoms

We report on the generation of light carrying orbital angular momentum through Bragg diffraction into an electromagnetically induced coherence grating in a degenerate two-level system of cold cesium atoms. The induced Zeeman coherence grating is shown to contain the spatial phase structure of the incident beams. The exchange of phase information between a light beam with orbital angular momentum and a long-lived atomic coherence opens up the way to process quantum information encoded in a multidimensional state space.     

Vortex-antivortex wavefunction of a degenerate quantum gas

A mechanism of a pinning of the quantized matter wave vortices by optical vortices in a specially arranged optical dipole traps is discussed. The vortex-antivortex optical arrays of rectangular symmetry are shown to transfer angular orbital momentum and form the “antiferromagnet”-like matter waves. The separable Hamiltonian for matter waves in pancake trapping geometry is proposed and 3D-wavefunction is factorized in a product of wavefunctions of the 1D harmonic oscillator and 2D vortex-antivortex quantum state. The 2D wavefunction’s phase gradient field associated via Madelung transform with the field of classical velocities forms labyrinth-like structure. The macroscopic quantum state composed of periodically spaced counter-rotating BEC superfluid vortices has zero angular momentum and nonzero rotational energy.     

Focusing of elliptically polarized Gaussian beams through an annular high numerical aperture

Based on the vectorial Debye theory,the focusing properties of the Gaussian beam through an annular high numerical aperture are studied numerically,including the intensity,the phase and the orbital angular momentum properties.Then the influence of certain parameters on the focusing properties is also investigated.It is shown that sub-wavelength elliptical light spots can be obtained.And there exists a vortex in the longitudinal component of the focused field even though the incident beam is Gaussian beam,indicating that the spin angular momentum of the elliptically polarized Gaussian beam is converted into the orbital angular momentum by the focusing.     

Experiments with twisted light

The generic – that is, stable under perturbations – nodes of the field in a monochromatic light beam are optical vortices. We describe here their connection to Chladni's nodal lines in the oscillations of metal plates, as well as a few experiments that have been performed with optical vortices. We will describe how optical vortices can be generated experimentally; how it can be shown that they possess orbital angular momentum; how individual photons can be sorted according to their vortex state; and how optical vortices can be used to demonstrate higher-dimensional quantum entanglement.     

Double-slit interference with Laguerre-Gaussian beams

The interference of Laguerre-Gaussian beams carrying orbital angular momentum was demonstrated in Young's double-slit geometry. Double-slit interference is shown to be affected by the azimuthal phase dependence of a Laguerre-Gaussian beam. This interference provides new insight into the helical phase structure of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam and has potential applications for measuring the orbital angular momentum of an arbitrary wavefront.