Compact, robust, and high-efficiency generator of vector optical fields

Li, Rui; Kong, Ling‐Jun; Qi, Wen-Rong; Huang, Shuang-Yin; Wang, Zhou-Xiang; Tu, Chenghou; Li, Yongnan; Wang, Hui-Tian

doi:10.1364/ol.44.002382

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“…Otherwise, implementations usually contain interferometers, where two orthogonal polarizations are modulated by spatially programmable devices individually and are then combined together [42]. Though ingenious devices with high robustness [43][44][45] are developed, their complexity of modulating two individual parts still set them bulky and redundant. Therefore, it is significant to create a compact passive device to generate CVBs with arbitrary topological charges.…”

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Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

Jia,

Zhang,

et al. 2021

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Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs), which possesses polarization distribution of rotational symmetry on the transverse plane, can be developed in many optical technologies. Conventional methods to generate CVBs contain redundant interferometers or need to switch among diverse elements, thus being inconvenient in applications containing multiple CVBs.Here we provide a passive polarization-selective device to substitute interferometers and simplify generation setup. It is accomplished by reversing topological charges of orbital angular momentum based on polarization-selective Gouy phase. In the process, tunable input light is the only condition to generate CVB with arbitrary topological charges. To cover both azimuthal and radial parameters of CVBs, we express the mapping between scalar Laguerre-Gaussian light on basic Poincaré sphere and CVB on high-order Poincaré sphere. The proposed device simplifies the generation of CVBs enormously, and thus has potentials in integrated devices for both quantum and classic optical experiments.

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Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

Jia,

Zhang,

et al. 2021

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“…All the interferometric methods, where the wavefront is modified using spatial light modulators, belong to the passive methods [24,25]. Other interferometric configurations have been explored which include compact and robust designs [26,25,27,28]. Furthermore, single-element vector beams generators have been introduced such as metasurfaces and Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements [29,30], which allow us to create complex polarization patterns based on a specific input beam.…”

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Cylindrical vector beam generator using a two-element interferometer

Mendoza-Hernández¹,

Ferrer-Garcia²,

Rojas-Santana³

et al. 2019

Opt. Express

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We realize a robust and compact cylindrical vector beam generator which consists of a simple two-element interferometer composed of a beam displacer and a cube beamsplitter. The interferometer operates on the higherorder Poincaré sphere transforming a homogeneously polarized vortex into a cylindrical vector (CV) beam. We experimentally demonstrate the transformation of a single vortex beam into all the well-known CV beams and show the operations on the higher-order Poincaré sphere according to the control parameters. Our method offers an alternative to the Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements and has the potential to be implemented as a monolithic device. 1 arXiv:1908.07562v1 [physics.optics]

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High-efficiency non-diffractive generator of arbitrary vectorial optical fields with minimal optical elements

Lam

Chen

2020

Optics Communications

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Compact, robust, and high-efficiency generator of vector optical fields

Cited by 11 publications

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Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

Arbitrary cylindrical vector beam generation enabled by polarization-selective Gouy phase shifter

Cylindrical vector beam generator using a two-element interferometer

High-efficiency non-diffractive generator of arbitrary vectorial optical fields with minimal optical elements

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