长周期多芯手征光纤轨道角动量的调制

基于矢量模式耦合理论,在多模光纤中引入手性耦合纤芯结构,设计了一种光纤型光轨道角动量调制器.使用单根光纤,无需施加扭转或应力,可以实现任意光轨道角动量的调制.通过理论分析与数值仿真,研究了不同结构参数对轨道角动量模式纯度、传输损耗和有效折射率的影响.在中心纤芯和旁纤芯传播常数不变的前提下,旁纤芯数量对损耗影响较大,通过相位匹配条件计算得到的螺距可以在一定数值范围内浮动变化,两种纤芯的间距受限于模式损耗和光纤集成度.     

Influence of atmospheric turbulence on states of light carrying orbital angular momentum

We have experimentally studied the degradation of mode purity for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagating through simulated atmospheric turbulence. The turbulence is modeled as a randomly varying phase aberration, which obeys statistics postulated by Kolmogorov turbulence theory. We introduce this simulated turbulence through the use of a phase-only spatial light modulator. Once the turbulence is introduced, the degradation in mode quality results in crosstalk between OAM modes. We study this crosstalk in OAM for 11 modes, showing that turbulence uniformly degrades the purity of all the modes within this range, irrespective of mode number.     

Efficient generation and multiplexing of optical orbital angular momentum modes in a ring fiber by using multiple coherent inputs

We propose an approach to efficiently generate and multiplex optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes in a fiber with a ring refractive index profile by using multiple coherent inputs from a Gaussian mode. By controlling the phase relationship of the multiple inputs, one can selectively generate OAM modes of different states l. By controlling both the amplitude and phase of the multiple inputs, multiple OAM modes can be generated simultaneously without additional loss coming from multiplexing. We show, by simulation, the generation of OAM modes (OAM state |l|<3) with mode purity greater than 99%. The power loss of generating and multiplexing seven modes is about 35%. A transmitter for an OAM-based mode-division multiplexing system is proposed based on the discrete Fourier transform between the data carried by the multiple inputs and the data carried by the OAM modes. The experimental implementation of the proposed approach could be achieved by integrating ring fiber, multicore fiber, and photonic integrated circuit technology.     

Aperture efficiency and mode constituent analysis for OAM vortex beam generated by digital metasurface

A systematic study of the aperture efficiency and mode constituent for orbital angular momentum(OAM) vortex beam generated by digital metasurface is presented. The aperture efficiency and OAM spectrum are computed for different bit numbers. It is found that the aperture efficiency declines for digital metasurface due to the phase quantization error,especially for 1-bit device. Fortunately, the OAM spectrum is barely affected by phase quantization and the designated main mode keeps dominant for different bit numbers, indicating that high purity OAM vortex beam can be generated by digital metasurface. Besides, the influence of topological charge l is also investigated. For a fixed metasurface, the radiation performance deteriorates sharply with the growing of l and the parasitic OAM mode becomes dominant at certain angle.At last, a prototype of 1-bit metasurface was simulated, fabricated and measured in anechoic chamber. The simulation and experiment results verify the correctness of the numerical analysis.     

Fiber coupler for generating orbital angular momentum modes

We propose a fiber coupler consisting of a central ring and four external cores to generate up to ten orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. Four coherent input lights are launched into the external cores and then coupled into the central ring waveguide to generate OAM modes. By changing the size of the external cores, one can selectively excite a high-order OAM mode. The quality of the generated OAM modes can be enhanced by adjusting the polarization state and the phase of input lights. We show the generation of OAM modes with odd charge numbers of -9 to +9 (i.e., 10 modes totally) with mode purity of >99% using <2?mm long fiber. This fiber coupler design can be extended to enable all-fiber spatial-mode (de)multiplexing.     

Digital coding transmissive metasurface for multi-OAM-beam

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a phenomenon of vortex phase distribution in free space, which has attracted enormous attention in theoretical research and practical application of wireless communication systems due to its characteristic of infinitely orthogonal modes. However, traditional methods generating OAM beams are bound to complex structure, large device, multiple layers, complex feed networks, and limited beams in microwave range. Here, a digital coding transmissive metasurface (DCTMS) with a single layer substrate and the bi-symmetrical arrow is proposed and designed to generate multi-OAM-beam based on Pancharatnam−Berry (PB) phase principle. The 3-bit phase response can be realized by encoding the geometric phase into rotation angle of unit cell for DCTMS. Additionally, the phase compensation of the metasurface is introduced to achieve the beam focusing and the conversion from spherical wave to plane wave. According to the digital convolution theorem, the far-field patterns and near-field distributions of multi-OAM-beam withl= −2 modes are adequately demonstrated by DCTMS prototypes. The OAM efficiency and the purity are calculated to demonstrate the excellent multi-OAM-beam. The simulated and experimental results illustrate their performance of OAM beams. The designed DCTMS has profound application in multi-platform wireless communication systems and the multi-channel imaging systems.     

Measuring orbital angular momentum of vortex beams in optomechanics

Measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of vortex beams, including the magnitude and the sign, has great application prospects due to its theoretically unbounded and orthogonal modes. Here, the sign-distinguishable OAM measurement in optomechanics is proposed, which is achieved by monitoring the shift of the transmission spectrum of the probe field in a double Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) rotational-cavity system. Compared with the traditional single LG rotational cavity, an asymmetric optomechanically induced transparency window can occur in our system. Meanwhile, the position of the resonance valley has a strong correlation with the magnitude and sign of OAM. This originally comes from the fact that the effective detuning of the cavity mode from the driving field can vary with the magnitude and sign of OAM, which causes the spectral shift to be directional for different signs of OAM. Our scheme solves the shortcoming of the inability to distinguish the sign of OAM in optomechanics, and works well for high-order vortex beams with topological charge value±45, which is a significant improvement for measuring OAM based on the cavity optomechanical system.     

利用Sagnac干涉仪实现光子轨道角动量分束器

光子轨道角动量量子态具有高维和光学涡旋特性, 在经典和量子领域展示出了巨大的应用潜力, 目前对其的研究已成为物理学的一个热点. 本实验研究了利用Sagnac干涉仪干涉的方法将具有不同轨道角动量的光束无破坏地分离到不同的路径, 即实现光子轨道角动量分束器. 实验中利用此分束器验证了对几种不同轨道角动量态(包含叠加态)的分离, 得到了与理论预期相符的实验结果. 这种对轨道角动量态的区分的方法相比已有的其他区分方法具有较好的稳定性, 而且可用于区分叠加态, 也可以达到单光子水平, 最重要的是实现了不同的轨道角动量本征态无破坏的与路径比特耦合. 这种新方法对高密度通信、量子纠缠、量子保密通信、量子计算与量子信息等方面有着重要的意义.     

Twisted optical communications using orbital angular momentum

Angular momentum, a fundamental physical quantity, can be divided into spin angular momentum(SAM) and orbital angular momentum(OAM) in electromagnetic waves. Helically-phased or twisted light beams carrying OAM that exploit the spatial structure physical dimension of electromagnetic waves have benefited wide applications ranging from optical manipulation to quantum information processing. Using the two distinct properties of OAM, i.e., inherent orthogonality and unbounded states in principle, one can develop OAM modulation and OAM multiplexing techniques for twisted optical communications. OAM multiplexing is an alternative space-division multiplexing approach employing an orthogonal mode basis related to the spatial phase structure. In this paper, we review the recent progress in twisted optical communications using OAM in free space and fiber. The basic concept of momentum, angular momentum, SAM, OAM and OAM-carrying twisted optical communications,key techniques and devices of OAM generation/(de)multiplexing/detection, high-capacity spectrally-efficient free-space OAM links, fiber-based OAM links, and OAM processing functions are presented. Ultra-high spectral efficiency and petabit-scale freespace data links are achieved benefiting from OAM multiplexing. The key techniques and challenges of twisted optical communications are also discussed. Twisted optical communications using OAM are compatible with other existing physical dimensions such as frequency/wavelength, amplitude, phase, polarization and time, opening a possible way to facilitate continuous increase of the aggregate transmission capacity and spectral efficiency through N-dimensional multiplexing.     

Beam alignments based on the spectrum decomposition of orbital angular momentums for acoustic-vortex communications

Given the enhanced channel capacity of wave chirality, acoustic communications based on the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of acoustic-vortex (AV) beams are of significant interest for underwater data transmissions. However, the stringent beam alignment is required for the coaxial arrangement of transceiver arrays to ensure the accuracy and reliability of OAM decoding. To avoid the required multiple measurements of the traditional orthogonality based algorithm, the beam alignment algorithm based on the OAM spectrum decomposition is proposed for AV communications by using simplified ring-arrays. Numerical studies of the single-OAM and OAM-multiplexed AV beams show that the error of the OAM spectrum increases with the translation distance and the deflection angle of the transceiver arrays. To achieve an ideal arrangement, two methods of the single-array translation alignment and the dual-array deflection alignment are developed based on the least standard deviation of the OAM spectrum (SD-OAM). By decreasing the SD-OAM towards zero using transceiver arrays of 16 transmitters and 16 receivers, accurate beam alignments are accomplished by multiple adjustments in three dimensions. The proposed method is also demonstrated by experimental measurements of the OAM dispersion and the SD-OAM for misaligned beams. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the rapid beam alignment based on the OAM spectrum decomposition by using simplified transceiver ring-arrays, and suggest more application potentials for acoustic communications.     

汉克-贝塞尔光束在海洋湍流信道中的螺旋相位谱分析

携带轨道角动量的汉克-贝塞尔(Hankel-Bessel,HB)光束具有无衍射和自聚焦特性,用来作为信息传输的载体有望增大信息传输容量.基于Rytov近似理论,推导得到了HB涡旋光束经过海洋水平弱湍流信道后的螺旋相位谱的解析表达式,并利用数值仿真方法研究了海洋湍流参数对轨道角动量模式探测概率的影响.结果表明,海洋湍流导致发射轨道角动量模式的探测概率下降,出现模式串扰和螺旋相位谱扩展.海洋湍流对HB涡旋光束的负面影响随着轨道角动量模式数、传输距离、温度方差耗散率的增加而增强,随湍流动能耗散率的增加而减弱.HB涡旋光束受以盐度波动驱动的海洋湍流的负面影响更大.另外,在弱湍流及几十米传输距离条件下,HB涡旋光束的传输性能要差于最佳束腰大小设置的拉盖尔-高斯涡旋光束.这些结果有望为海洋环境水下光通信链路的实现提供一定的参考价值.     

利用衍射光栅探测涡旋光束轨道角动量态的研究进展

涡旋光束是一种携带有轨道角动量的光束,在光学扳手、光通信、旋转探测等领域具有重要的应用价值.由于轨道角动量态是涡旋光束的特征值,因此如何探测光束的轨道角动量态分布至关重要.国内外学者已经提出了多种探测涡旋光束的技术,如干涉法、衍射光栅法、多普勒分析法、超材料表面法等.这些技术中,衍射光栅测量法较为简单易行,应用较广.本综述主要介绍了几种当前利用衍射光栅测量涡旋光束轨道角动量态的主流方法,同时也介绍了如何利用衍射光栅来测量光束的轨道角动量谱.     

Generating optical orbital angular momentum in a high-gain free-electron laser at the first harmonic

A scheme to generate intense coherent light that carries orbital angular momentum (OAM) at the fundamental wavelength of an x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) is described. The OAM light is emitted as the dominant mode of the system until saturation provided that the helical microbunching imposed on the electron beam is larger than the shot-noise bunching that leads to self-amplified emission. Operating at the fundamental, this scheme is more efficient than alternate schemes that rely on harmonic emission, and can be applied to x-ray FELs without using external optical mode conversion elements.     

Ellipse-Like Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Holography and Efficient Decryption Utilizing a Composite Ellipse-Like Lens

The utilization of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as an independent degree of freedom for information encryption has gained significant attention. Nevertheless, the multiplexing capacity of OAM is still constrained, and there is a lack of research on accelerated decryption techniques in OAM multiplexed holography. In this study, ellipse-like orbital angular momentum (EL-OAM) multiplexed holography is proposed and implemented. The ellipse-like (EL) beam incorporates three modulatable parameters: topological charge, power index, and radial shift. To achieve efficient decryption, a composite ellipse-like lens (CELL) is introduced that generates two EL beams carrying different OAMs at distinct axial positions, resulting in two reconstruction holographic images with approximately equal intensity. The mode selectivity of EL-OAM based on the aforementioned parameters is investigated. Experimental verification demonstrates the feasibility of EL-OAM multiplexed holography and its potential for fast decryption in various dimensions. This breakthrough opens up new possibilities for practical information encryption and decryption systems.     

Self-homodyne detection of the light orbital angular momentum

A simple optical system for the self-homodyne detection of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried by optical beams is introduced. We propose two different schemes based on the use of optical hybrids, which could detect the OAM mode number, even when the input beam might be slightly distorted. A balanced receiver is used to perform a self-homodyne measure of the optical signal from two different locations at the beam wavefront.     

声轨道角动量水下发射与数据传输实验

研究了声轨道角动量水下发射技术与多路复用的水下数据传输,基于点源理论推导了相控圆周阵列发射声轨道角动量的基本原理,分析了干扰项的阶数成分及干扰项对主项的影响,优化设计了基于Cymbal换能器的阵列样机,阵列样机直径为Φ180 mm,阵元数为10元,工作频率为25 kHz,通过对阵列阵元的相位调控实现了-3至3六阶声轨道角动量的发射,验证了基于相控原理实现不同拓扑荷数声轨道角动量发射的理论。通过利用各阶声轨道角动量的开关状态进行数据编码,进行了基于声轨道角动量多路复用的水下数据传输实验,实验结果表明,不同拓扑荷数的声轨道角动量具有良好的正交性质,可以利用基于声轨道角动量的多路复用技术实现水下数据传输功能。      

Generalized high-order twisted partially coherent beams and their propagation characteristics

Twist phase is a nontrivial statistical phase that only exists in partially coherent fields, which makes the beam carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). In this paper, we introduce a new kind of partially coherent beams carrying high-order twist phase, named generalized high-order twisted partially coherent beams (GHTPCBs). The propagation dynamics such as the spectral density and OAM flux density propagating in free space are investigated numerically with the help of mode superposition and fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. Our results show that the GHTPCBs are capable of self-focusing, and the beam spot during propagation exhibits teardrop-like or the diamond-like shape in some certain cases. Moreover, the influences of the twist order and the twist factor on the OAM flux density during propagation are also illustrated in detail. Finally, we experimentally synthesize the GHTPCBs with controllable twist phase by means of pseudo-mode superposition and measure their spectral density during propagation. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical predictions. Our studies may find applications in nonlinear optics and particle trapping.     

采用超声导波阵列技术研究板类结构大面积检测

超声导波阵列检测技术可以实现板类结构的快速、大面积检测,是工业领域中最有前景的技术之一。针对目前此技术中存在的单一模态传感器难制作、检测频率高(一般在200 kHz以上)、需非常密集的传感器阵列和成像分辨率低等问题,本文采用一种圆环形线圈EMAT (Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer),在较低频率15 kHz激励产生单一A0模态Lamb波,由8个传感器组成环形阵列,利用TFM (Total Focus Method)进行成像,实现了超声Lamb波对板类结构的快速、大面积检测。对一块包含直径为27 mm通孔的3 mm厚铝板进行实验研究,结果表明,此系统具有较高的测量稳定性和成像分辨率,能快速定位缺陷,适用于对板类结构进行大面积粗检。在对检测系统盲区形成原因分析的基础上,建立了一种计算盲区范围的方法。      

Turbulence mitigation scheme based on multiple-user detection in an orbital-angular-momentum multiplexed system

Atmospheric turbulence(AT) induced crosstalk can significantly impair the performance of a free-space optical(FSO)communication link using orbital angular momentum(OAM) multiplexing.In this paper,we propose a multiple-user detection(MUD) turbulence mitigation scheme in an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.First,we present a MUD equivalent communication model for an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link under AT.In the equivalent model,each input bit stream represents one user's information.The deformed OAM spatial modes caused by AT,instead of the pure OAM spatial modes,are used as information carriers,and the overlapping between the deformed OAM spatial modes are computed as the correlation coefficients between the users.Then,we present a turbulence mitigation scheme based on MUD idea to enhance AT tolerance of the OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.In the proposed scheme,the crosstalk caused by AT is used as a useful component to deduce users' information.The numerical results show that the performance of the OAM-multiplexed communication link has greatly improved by the proposed scheme.When the turbulence strength C_n~2 is 1 × 10~(-15) m~(-2/3),the transmission distance is 1000 m and the channel signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)is 26 dB,the bit-error-rate(BER) performance of four spatial multiplexed OAM modes l_m = + 1,+2,+3,+4 are all close to 10~(-5),and there is a 2-3 fold increase in the BER performance in comparison with those results without the proposed scheme.In addition,the proposed scheme is more effective for an OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link with a larger OAM mode topological charge interval.The proposed scheme is a promising direction for compensating the interference caused by AT in the OAM-multiplexed FSO communication link.     

利用光束的轨道角动量实现高密度数据存储的机理研究

光束的轨道角动量本征态可以构建高维Hilbert空间，将之应用于数据存储中，可以实现比传统方法更高的数据存储密度.提出了一种用光束轨道角动量实现高密度数据存储的方法，对存储区域进行相位编码，通过探测透射光束轨道角动量谱(螺旋谱)的特征来区分由相位编码形成的不同数据态.四台阶结构相位编码可以实现57个不同的数据态，有望将数据密度提高为传统方法的近6倍. 关键词： 光束轨道角动量 光学存储 高密度存储