Experiments Showing Orbital Angular Momentum Exchange with Optical Vortices

Author

Vuong, Luat T. ; Ishaaya, Amiel I. ; Grow, Taylor D. ; Eliel, Eric R. ; Hooft, Gert T. ; Gaeta, Alexander L.

Author_Institution

Cornell Univ., Ithaca

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This paper presents the first experimental demonstration of optical orbital angular momentum exchange between different field polarizations and the quantification of azimuthal optical flow resulting from the nonlinear interaction. This investigation establishes the connections between inhomogeneously polarized beams and helical phase fronts, as well as the nonequilibrium phase dynamics that underlie multiple filamentation.

Keywords

light polarisation; nonlinear optics; optical vortices; azimuthal optical flow; field polarizations; helical phase fronts; inhomogeneously polarized beams; multiple filamentation; nonequilibrium phase dynamics; nonlinear interaction; optical vortices; orbital angular momentum exchange; Atom optics; Charge coupled devices; Glass; Image motion analysis; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical devices; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical vortices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386961

Filename

4386961