Polarization-insensitive metasurfaces for generating converging vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rizwan Akram ◽  
Chong He ◽  
Xianling Liang ◽  
Junping Geng ◽  
Ronghong Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Vortex Beams

scholarly journals High-Efficiency Spin-Related Vortex Metalenses

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1485
Author(s):  
Wei Wang ◽  
Ruikang Zhao ◽  
Shilong Chang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Yan Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Topological Charge ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Infrared Band ◽  
Mid Infrared ◽  
Integrated Devices ◽  
Vortex Beams ◽  
Topological Charges

In this paper, one spin-selected vortex metalens composed of silicon nanobricks is designed and numerically investigated at the mid-infrared band, which can produce vortex beams with different topological charges and achieve different spin lights simultaneously. Another type of spin-independent vortex metalens is also designed, which can focus the vortex beams with the same topological charge at the same position for different spin lights, respectively. Both of the two vortex metalenses can achieve high-efficiency focusing for different spin lights. In addition, the spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion through the vortex metalens is also discussed in detail. Our work facilitates the establishment of high-efficiency spin-related integrated devices, which is significant for the development of vortex optics and spin optics.

scholarly journals Optical vortex lattice: an exploitation of orbital angular momentum

Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liuhao Zhu ◽  
Miaomiao Tang ◽  
Hehe Li ◽  
Yuping Tai ◽  
Xinzhong Li
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Optical Tweezers ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Vortex Lattice ◽  
Optical Vortex ◽  
Yeast Cells ◽  
Particle Manipulation ◽  
Complex Motion ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Vortex Beams

Abstract Generally, an optical vortex lattice (OVL) is generated via the superposition of two specific vortex beams. Thus far, OVL has been successfully employed to trap atoms via the dark cores. The topological charge (TC) on each optical vortex (OV) in the lattice is only ±1. Consequently, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) on the lattice is ignored. To expand the potential applications, it is necessary to rediscover and exploit OAM. Here we propose a novel high-order OVL (HO-OVL) that combines the phase multiplication and the arbitrary mode-controllable techniques. TC on each OV in the lattice is up to 51, which generates sufficient OAM to manipulate microparticles. Thereafter, the entire lattice can be modulated to desirable arbitrary modes. Finally, yeast cells are trapped and rotated by the proposed HO-OVL. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first realization of the complex motion of microparticles via OVL. Thus, this work successfully exploits OAM on OVL, thereby revealing potential applications in particle manipulation and optical tweezers.

scholarly journals Sectorial perturbation of vortex beams: Shannon entropy, orbital angular momentum and topological charge

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 723-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.V. Volyar ◽  
M.V. Bretsko ◽  
Ya.E. Akimova ◽  
Yu.A. Egorov ◽  
V.V. Milyukov
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Shannon Entropy ◽  
Topological Charge ◽  
External Perturbation ◽  
Informational Entropy ◽  
Large Perturbation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Vortex Beams ◽  
Computing Measuring

Transformations of the vortex beams structure subjected to sectorial perturbation were theoretically and experimentally studied. The analysis was based on computing (measuring) the vortex spectrum that enables us to find the orbital angular momentum (OAM) and Shannon entropy (informational entropy). We have revealed that, in the general case, the number of vortices caused by an external perturbation is not related to the topological charge. For arbitrary perturbation, the topological charge remains equal to the initial topological charge of the unperturbed vortex beam. Growth of the vortex number induced by perturbations is associated with the optical uncertainty principle between the sectorial angle and the OAM. The computer simulation has shown that OAM does not depend on the number of vortices induced by perturbations. Moreover, two maxima are formed both in the positive and negative regions of the vortex spectrum. As a result, the OAM does not practically change in a wide range of perturbation angles from 0 to 90 °. However, at large perturbation angles, when the energy is almost equally redistributed between the vortex modes with opposite signs of the topological charge, the OAM rapidly decreases. At the same time, the Shannon entropy monotonically increases with growing perturbation angle. This is due to the fact that the entropy depends only on the number of vortex states caused by external perturbations.

Interferometric Detection Method for Orbital Angular Momentum of Vortex Beams

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (14) ◽  
pp. 140502
Author(s):  
裴春莹 Chunying Pei ◽  
茅志翔 Zhixiang Mao ◽  
徐素鹏 Supeng Xu ◽  
夏勇 Yong Xia ◽  
尹亚玲 Yaling Yin
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Vortex Beams ◽  
Interferometric Detection
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