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Fragmentation of twisted light in photon–phonon nonlinear propagation
- Source :
- Applied Physics Letters. 112:161103
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2018.
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Abstract
- Twisted light, or orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light, has been gradually becoming an important subfield of nonlinear optics. Compared with ordinary light, its chiral phase front provides an additional interface for shaping the phase-matching condition of nonlinear interactions and in consequence reveals a feasible way to tailor light's transverse structure. Here, we explore the nonlinear propagation of twisted light during focused stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Unlike ordinary light that will experience a time-reversal nonlinear reflection, OAM carrying light will break up into corresponding petal-like degenerate OAM modes that carry no net OAM, whereas the superposed OAM modes that carry no net OAM, as the input field, are still time–reversed in focused-SBS. This unexpected phenomenon, resulting from a unique OAM selection rule of noise-initiated SBS, gives more insight into the underlying principle of OAM conservation in electromagnetic interactions and provides an approach to shaping light via nonlinear propagation.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Angular momentum
Photon
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Phonon
Degenerate energy levels
Physics::Optics
Nonlinear optics
01 natural sciences
010309 optics
Nonlinear system
Transverse plane
Brillouin scattering
Quantum electrodynamics
Physics::Space Physics
0103 physical sciences
010306 general physics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10773118 and 00036951
- Volume :
- 112
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Physics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........663475c9449f27bd995698caa920a6a4