scholarly journals Observation of the Rotational Doppler Effect With Structured Beams in Atomic Vapor

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuwei Qiu ◽  
Jinwen Wang ◽  
Xin Yang ◽  
Mingtao Cao ◽  
Shougang Zhang ◽  
...  

A vector beam with the spatial variation polarization has attracted keen interest and is progressively applied in quantum information, quantum communication, precision measurement, and so on. In this letter, the spectrum observation of the rotational Doppler effect based on the coherent interaction between atoms and structured light in an atomic vapor is realized. The geometric phase and polarization of the structured beam are generated and manipulated by using a flexible and efficacious combination optical elements, converting an initial linearly polarized Gaussian beam into a phase vortex beam or an asymmetric or symmetric vector beam. These three representative types of structured beam independently interact with atoms under a longitudinal magnetic field to explore the rotational Doppler shift associated with the topological charge. We find that the rotational Doppler broadening increases obviously with the topological charge of the asymmetric and symmetric vector beam. There is no rotational Doppler broadening observed from the spectrum of the phase vortex beam, although the topological charge, and spatial profile of the beam change. This study can be applied to estimate the rotational velocity of the atom-level or molecule-level objects, measure the intensity of magnetic fields and study the quantum coherence in atomic ensembles.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Cui ◽  
Zheng Liu ◽  
Bin Hu ◽  
Yurong Jiang ◽  
Juan Liu

Abstract Tunable metasurface devices are considered to be an important link for metasurfaces to practical applications due to their functional diversity and high adaptability to the application scenarios. Metasurfaces have unique value in the generation of vortex beams because they can realize light wavefronts of any shape. In recent years, several vortex beam generators using metasurfaces have been proposed. However, the topological charge generally lacks tunability, which reduces the scope of their applications. Here, we propose an active tunable multi-channeled vortex beam switch based on a moiré structure composed of two cascaded dielectric metasurfaces. The simulation results show that when linearly polarized light with a wavelength of 810 nm is incident, the topological charge from -6 to +6 can be continuously generated by relatively rotating the two metasurfaces. Meanwhile, different topological charges are deflected to different spatial channels, realizing the function of multi-channeled signal transmission. We also study the efficiency and broadband performance of the structure. The proposed multi-channeled separation method of vortex beams that can actively tune topological charges paves the way for the compactness and functional diversity of devices in the fields of optical communications, biomedicine, and optoelectronics.


Optik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 228-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiufang Zhan ◽  
Rongfu Zhang ◽  
Yu Miao ◽  
Guanxue Wang ◽  
Xinmiao Lu ◽  
...  

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 727-732
Author(s):  
Marco Piccardo ◽  
Antonio Ambrosio

AbstractThe purity of an optical vortex beam depends on the spread of its energy among different azimuthal and radial modes, also known as $\ell $- and p-modes. The smaller the spread, the higher the vortex purity and more efficient its creation and detection. There are several methods to generate vortex beams with well-defined orbital angular momentum, but only few exist allowing selection of a pure radial mode. These typically consist of many optical elements with rather complex arrangements, including active cavity resonators. Here, we show that it is possible to generate pure vortex beams using a single metasurface plate—called p-plate as it controls radial modes—in combination with a polarizer. We generalize an existing theory of independent phase and amplitude control with birefringent nanopillars considering arbitrary input polarization states. The high purity, sizeable creation efficiency, and impassable compactness make the presented approach a powerful complex amplitude modulation tool for pure vortex generation, even in the case of large topological charges.


2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (27) ◽  
pp. 8030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chen ◽  
Zhao-Xiang Fang ◽  
Yu-Xuan Ren ◽  
Lei Gong ◽  
Rong-De Lu

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
S.S. Stafeev ◽  
V.D. Zaitsev

By numerically simulating the sharp focusing of fractional-order vector beams (0≤m≤1, with azimuthal polarization at m=1 and linear polarization at m=0), it is shown that the shape of the intensity distribution in the focal spot changes from elliptical (m=0) to round (m=0.5) and ends up being annular (m=1). Meanwhile, the distribution pattern of the longitudinal component of the Poynting vector (energy flux) in the focal spot changes in a different way: from circular (m=0) to elliptical (m=0.5) and ends up being annular (m=1). The size of the focal spot at full width at half maximum of intensity for a first-order azimuthally polarized optical vortex (m=1) and numerical aperture NA=0.95 is found to be 0.46 of the incident wavelength, whereas the diameter of the on-axis energy flux for linearly polarized light (m=0) is 0.45 of the wavelength. Therefore, the answers to the questions: when the focal spot is round and when elliptical, or when the focal spot is minimal -- when focusing an azimuthally polarized vortex beam or a linearly polarized non-vortex beam, depend on whether we are considering the intensity at the focus or the energy flow. In another run of numerical simulation, we investigate the effect of the deviation of the beam order from m=2 (when an energy backflow is observed at the focal spot center). The reverse energy flow is shown to occur at the focal spot center until the beam order gets equal to m=1.55.


2019 ◽  
Vol 431 ◽  
pp. 238-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Zhang ◽  
Tian Xia ◽  
Shubo Cheng ◽  
Shaohua Tao

2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (20) ◽  
pp. 201106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyuan Lu ◽  
Chengliang Zhao ◽  
Yifeng Shao ◽  
Jun Zeng ◽  
Sander Konijnenberg ◽  
...  

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