Evolution of self-healing characteristic on optical Airy beam

We investigate and analyze the evolution of self-healing characteristic on diffraction-free Airy beams. We also show that different internal structure of Airy beams contribute to self-healing by breaking the integrity of Airy beams. A numerical simulation is performed and demonstrate that each independent structure undertakes different roles. It is believed that the intriguing characteristic of Airy beams can be applied in many fields such as optical tweezers, atom trapping and manipulating.     

Specular and vortical Airy beams

A new kind of truncated Airy beams is investigated and discussed. These beams are a superposition of shifted and truncated Airy functions and its specular counterparts, where zeroes or extremal points of the Airy function are chosen as a truncation point. The specular Airy beams are smooth at the truncation point and produce a diffraction pattern similar to Hermite-Gaussian modes. Under propagation in Fresnel zone, specular Airy beams demonstrate a symmetrical acceleration in opposite sides and the beam divergence is proportional to the traveled distance squared. The astigmatic mode converter transforms a two-dimensional specular Airy beam into a quasi-annular field with a nonzero orbital angular momentum. Vortical Airy beams based on truncated Airy functions are also discussed. These beams are similar to Laguerre-Gaussian modes, while their annular structure is changed during propagation.     

Collapse arrest in a two-dimensional Airy Gaussian beam and Airy Gaussian vortex beam in nonlocal nonlinear media

Propagation dynamics of a two-dimensional Airy Gaussian beam and Airy Gaussian vortex beam are investigated numerically in local and nonlocal nonlinear media. The self-healing and collapse of the beam crucially depend on the distribution factor b and the topological charge m. With the aid of nonlocality, a stable Airy Gaussian beam and an Airy Gaussian vortex beam with larger amplitude can be obtained, which always collapse in local nonlinear media. When the distribution factor b is large enough, the Airy Gaussian vortex beam will transfer into quasi-vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media.     

The deflected angle and reflected displacement of Airy beams

The deflected angle of airy beams is defined to describe their bending degree. Based on this parameter, we analyze the lateral displacement of airy beams and the changes of deflected angles during reflection process. In multi-reflections of airy beams, we find that deflected angles increase linearly with the times of reflection, which is useful to study the propagation properties of airy beam in parallel plate waveguides and other waveguides. Also we can use this parameter to control the incident and reflected routes to realize airy beam bypassing obstacles and reflecting back at predictable location.     

Propagation dynamics and optical trapping of a radial Airy array beam

Analytical propagation expression of a radial Airy array beam in coherent and incoherent combination passing through paraxial ABCD system is derived, and used to investigate the effect of combination scheme, array orientation and initial phase of Airy beamlet on propagation dynamics of the resulting beam in free space, where optical spot array and vortex array with different shapes are also found, respectively. And then taking four-beamlet Airy array beam in same array orientation as an example, square optical spot array obtained in focal field can be used for simultaneous trapping multiple Rayleigh particles with relative refractive index larger than 1. The transverse gradient forces serving as restore forces tend to push particles at different initial positions to their individual optical spot center. The analysis of trapping stability indicates that larger input peak intensity of Airy beamlet and smaller particle size are benefit to trapping particle owing to many deeper potential wells. Vortex array produced by coherent combined Airy array beam in this paper is expected to be useful for simultaneous trapping microparticles with relative refractive index smaller than 1.     

四瓣高斯光束的Gyrator变换性质和矩形空心光束的产生

基于Gyrator变换,推导了四瓣高斯光束场分布的解析表达式,研究了四瓣高斯光束通过Gyrator变换后的光强分布和相位分布.结果表明:在Gyrator变换过程中,四瓣高斯光束能够转换为具有光涡旋的矩形空心光束,在获得矩形空心光束时其四顶角处光束强度最强,而四条边上的光束强度分布几乎是均匀的.对影响矩形空心光束强度和相位分布的光束参数和变换角进行了详细的分析,发现光束阶数不同,产生不同类型的空心光束;Gyrator变换的变换角则影响空心光束能量分布;空心光束亮环的大小由四瓣高斯光束的束腰宽度决定,束腰宽度越大,矩形空心光束的宽度越小.     

Off-Axis and Multi Optical Bottles from the Ring Airy Gaussian Vortex Beam with the Astigmatic Phase

A new type of off-axis and multi optical bottle (OB) from an astigmatic-phase ring Airy Gaussian vortex beam (APRAGVB) propagating in free space is derived numerically. By choosing appropriate parameters, different sizes and amounts of OBs can be obtained. More importantly, when the APRAGVB has the multi optical vortices at different locations, one can generate off-axis, multi, and complex OBs. It is believed that the results can diversify optical tweezers applications for multi microparticle manipulation.     

Analysis of black-grating-effect on the displacement measurement based on phase-coded target joint transform correlators

Black-grating-effect of SLM on the displacement measurement based on phase-coded target joint transform correlators(PCTJTC) is discussed. Displacement measurement technology based on PCTJTC is proposed. Black-grating-effect is explained and the impact of a pixel's fill factor is discussed. Pixel segmentation is elaborated and simulation results are given. It is shown that black-grating-effect has brought errors to the detection precision. The optical efficiency is higher when the fill factor is bigger, and the intensity distribution of the spectrum moves closer toward the 0th fringe, which brings down the CCD's need of high resolution.     

Real-time optical reconstruction of the diffused 3D object using phase information calculated by Continuous Wavelet Transform

We propose the real time optical reconstruction of a three-dimensional (3D) object from a digitally recorded hologram. Phase distribution of the recorded hologram is numerically calculated by 1-dimensional Continuous Wavelet Transform (1D-CWT) for digital reconstruction with phase only information. Also, the phase distribution of 1D-CWT transferred to the spatial light modulator (SLM) is used to obtain optically reconstructed image. It is observed that an efficient real-time analysis can be achieved, if phase of 1D-CWT is used. In the same time, optically reconstructed 3D objects obtained by only phase information are about three times brighter than bleached hologram intensity's. So the minimum power loss can be obtained. Numerical and experimental results are presented.     

Propagations of Airy Beams and Nonlinear Accelerating Optical Beams in Photorefractive Crystals with Asymmetric Nonlocality

The impact of the asymmetric nonlocal diffusion nonlinearity of Airy beams and nonlinear accelerating beams supported by photorefractive crystals is addressed. It is revealed how the asymmetric nonlocal response alters the evolution of these optical beams. It is found that the evolution of these beams presents a bending action under the influence of the diffusion nonlinearity. It is also shown that nonlinear accelerating beams can exist in photorefractive crystals with asymmetric nonlocality. These accelerating solutions have the same Airy‐like tail, and accelerate along parabolic trajectories. Soliton states are formed in the interaction of both in‐phase and out‐of‐phase Airy beams and nonlinear accelerating beams and also present a bending action because of the action of diffusion nonlinearity.     

用傅里叶分析法研究艾里光束远场传播特性

为了从理论上深入分析新型无衍射光束艾里光束在有限能量条件下的远场传播特性,首先,从决定光波在自由空间传播的一维旁轴波动方程入手,采用傅里叶分析法,结合艾里函数的特殊性质,并利用经过指数衰减的有限能量初始条件,完整给出了有限能量条件下用于精确描述一维艾里光束在自由空间传播特性的波动方程解析解.然后,利用所得到解析解分别对一维和二维艾里光束在自由空间的传播特性进行了研究,重点分析了不同参量条件对艾里光束进行无衍射传播和横向自加速的影响.研究表明:当任意横向尺度为100μm,衰减系数为0.03、0.05、0.07、0.1、0.2时,二维艾里光束无衍射传播距离分别为1 014、624、455、338、193mm;当横向尺度保持不变时,衰减系数越小,艾里光束保持无衍射传播的距离越大;当衰减系数保持不变时,横向尺度越小,艾里光束横向自加速越大.所采用的研究方法也可用于研究艾里光束在介质中的传播特性.     

Reflection and transmission of an Airy beam in a dielectric slab

The reflection and transmission of a finite-power Airy beam incident on a dielectric slab are investigated by an analytical method. Based on the plane-wave angular spectrum expansion and Fresnel approximation, the analytical expressions of the reflected field, internal field as well as transmitted field in each region are obtained. Through numerical simulations, the intensity distributions of the incident beam, reflected beam, internal beam as well as transmitted beam are presented at oblique incidence. Besides, we also compare the intensity distributions of the geometrical-optics beam field, the first order beam mode field and the actual beam field, which indicates that the contribution of each order beam mode field to the actual beam field is related to the refractive index of the dielectric slab. Meanwhile, the reflection characteristics of the Airy beams in the special cases of Brewster incidence and total reflection are investigated. Finally, the effects of the optical thickness and refractive index of the dielectric slab on the peak intensity distributions and beam shifts of the reflected and transmitted beams are also discussed in detail. The analytical and numerical results will be useful to analyze the propagation dynamics of Airy beam in the dielectric slab and provide some theoretical supports to the design of optical film.     

螺旋光束经过振幅型衍射光学元件的传输特性及其拓扑电荷数的测量

本文提出了一种利用空间光调制器生成杨氏双缝和三角孔等振幅型衍射光学元件的方法. 利用平面波角谱衍射公式和柯林斯公式研究了螺旋光束经过这两种衍射元件后的传输特性, 并利用杨氏双缝和三角孔实现了螺旋光束拓扑电荷数的测量. 由于空间光调制器可以方便和高精度地改变光学器件的几何尺寸和所在的空间位置, 因此可便捷地实现螺旋光束拓扑电荷数的测量.     

激光束散角复合控制技术

为了降低部分相干光光学系统设计的复杂度及成本,增加部分相干光应用的便捷性,提出了一种液晶空间光调制器的激光相干度及束散角复合控制方法。首先介绍了对激光光束进行相干度和束散角复合控制的基本理论和方法;然后分别设置了相干度和束散角检测实验,检测了本方法所调制激光光束的相干度和束散角的准确性。实验结果表明,采用液晶空间光调制器生成相干度为0.9 mm、束散角为7.5 mrad,以及相干度为1.5 mm、束散角为3.8 mrad的部分相干光束,其相干度与理论值相比误差在5%以内,其相干度均方根误差分别为0.027386和0.031314,峰谷值分别为0.084 658和0.089 103;其束散角与理论值相比误差在5%以内,其束散角均方根误差分别为0.022 478和0.023 186,峰谷值分别为0.081 201和0.092 130。可见,该方法可以实现高精度的相干度及束散角复合控制。     

广义双曲正弦-高斯光束的Gyrator变换性质和暗空心光束产生

基于Gyrator变换,推导了广义双曲正弦-高斯光束场分布的解析表达式,研究了广义双曲正弦-高斯光束在Gyrator变换平面上的光强分布和相位特性.结果表明,在Gyrator变换过程中,具有边缘位错相位特性的双曲正弦-高斯光束能转换为具有涡旋的暗空心光束,并确定产生的暗空心光束的拓扑荷指数为一,而不具有边缘位错相位特性的双曲余弦-高斯光束则不可能出现空心结构.对影响变换场强度和相位分布的束结构参数及系统参数进行了分析讨论.     

Propagation properties of Bessel and Bessel-Gaussian beams in a fractional Fourier transform optical system

The properties of Bessel-Gaussian beams (BGBs) and Bessel beams (BBs) propagating through a fractional Fourier transform (FRT) optical system have been investigated. The analytical transformation formulae for BBs and BGBs propagation through a FRT optical system are derived based on definition of the FRT in the cylindrical coordinate system. By using the derived formula, numerical examples are illustrated.     

Propagation and transformation of Bessel beam through the fractional Fourier transform system with two hard-edged apertures

The propagation properties of Bessel beam is a meaningful research. In this paper, based on the expanding the hard-edged circular aperture as a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions and the scalar diffraction theory, an approximate analytical solution for Bessel beam propagating through a fractional Fourier transform system is derived in the cylindrical coordinates. Then, the detailed numerical calculation for Bessel beam is presented. The simulation also shows that the beam parameter and the order of fractional Fourier transform result in the change of field distribution, including location, intensity and width.     

液晶光阀用于光学傅里叶变换

结合我校开设的液晶光阀实验，介绍了几个典型的静态傅里叶变换实验内容，以液晶光阀在计算全息扫描器中的应用为例，对其在动态傅里叶变换中的应用进行了讨论。     

Propagation of Lorentz and Lorentz-Gauss beams through an apertured fractional Fourier transform optical system

By expanding the hard-aperture function into a finite sum of complex Gaussian functions, we derive approximate analytical formulae for Lorentz and Lorentz-Gauss beams propagating through an apertured fractional Fourier transform (FRT) optical system. As an application example, properties of a Lorentz-Gauss beam in the FRT plane after propagating through a squarely or annularly apertured FRT optical system are studied numerically. The results obtained using the approximate analytical formula are in good agreement with those obtained using numerical integral calculation. The FRT optical system provides a convenient way for laser beam shaping.