1 深圳大学射频异质异构集成全国重点实验室,微纳光电子学研究院纳米光子学研究中心,广东 深圳 518060
2 之江实验室智能感知研究院,浙江 杭州 311100
自旋角动量是基本粒子和场的一个基本的动力学物理量,它在光与物质相互作用中扮演着极其重要的角色。在光学研究中,光的自旋角动量与圆极化密切相关,通过研究光学自旋与物质或结构的相互作用产生了许多新颖有趣的光学现象和光学应用,并诞生了自旋光学这一新兴学科。过去的研究中,研究人员主要聚焦在与平均波矢方向平行的纵向光学自旋。近年来,科研人员通过研究限制场如聚焦波、导波和倏逝波等的自旋轨道耦合性质,发现了一类新型的光学自旋,这类自旋与平均波矢方向垂直,因此被称为光学横向自旋。横向自旋具有自旋动量绑定的性质,一经发现便受到研究人员的广泛关注。横向自旋的发现拓展了光学自旋轨道相互作用的内容,并在光学操纵、光学精密检测、手性量子光学和光学自旋拓扑态等领域具有广阔的应用前景。本文从理论、实验技术和应用3个方面详细介绍自旋光学的最新进展。自旋光学的理论概念和框架可为研究人员进一步开拓基于光学自旋在光学成像、光学探测、光通信和量子技术等领域的应用发挥巨大的作用,同时也可拓展到一般经典波场,比如流体波、声波和引力波等。
物理光学 自旋角动量 自旋动量绑定 自旋轨道耦合 光学微分计算 光学探测 横向光学力 光学学报
2024, 44(10): 1026002
光子学报
2023, 52(11): 1126001
Lang Li 1,2,3Yingchi Guo 1,2,3Zhichao Zhang 1,2,3Zijun Shang 1,2,3[ ... ]Shiyao Fu 1,2,3,*
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing, China
2 Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic Imaging Technology and System, Beijing, China
3 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Technology, Beijing, China
As an inherent degree of freedom, total angular momentum (TAM) of photons consisting of spin angular momentum and orbital angular momentum has inspired many advanced applications and attracted much attention in recent years. Probing TAM and tailoring beam’s TAM spectrum on demand are of great significance for TAM-based scenarios. We propose both theoretically and experimentally a TAM processor enabling tunable TAM manipulation. Such a processor consists of a set of quasi-symmetric units, and each unit is composed of a couple of diffraction optical elements fabricated through polymerized liquid crystals. Forty-two single TAM states are experimentally employed to prove the concept. The favorable results illustrate good TAM state selection performance, which makes it particularly attractive for high-speed large-capacity data transmission, optical computing, and high-security photon encryption systems.
vortex beams orbital angular momentum spin angular momentum total angular momentum tailoring Advanced Photonics
2023, 5(5): 056002
1 北京理工大学光电学院,北京 100081
2 信息光子技术工业和信息化部重点实验室,北京 100081
3 光电成像技术与系统教育部重点实验室,北京 100081
与宏观物体类似,光子等微观粒子也可携带角动量。光子的角动量包括自旋角动量和轨道角动量,两种角动量的共同作用产生了一种新型结构光束,即矢量涡旋光束。矢量涡旋光束具有各向异性的波面和偏振分布,提供了多种光场自由度,在量子技术、光通信、激光探测、激光加工、高分辨成像、光镊等前沿领域展现了巨大的应用潜力,吸引了国内外学者的广泛关注。高效地生成矢量涡旋光束,以及高精度地识别矢量涡旋光束的模式分布,是其应用的关键。本文简要回顾了国内外学者在矢量涡旋光束的生成与模式识别方面的研究工作,同时系统梳理了本文作者过去十年在该方面的研究进展,重点介绍了其相关代表性成果。
物理光学 激光光场调控 矢量涡旋光束 轨道角动量 自旋角动量 光学学报
2023, 43(15): 1526001
强激光与粒子束
2023, 35(5): 051003
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, Xi’an, China
2 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Xi’an, China
3 Chinese Flight Test Establishment, Xi’an, China
Emerging as a family of waves, Janus waves are known to have “real” and “virtual” components under inversion of the propagation direction. Although tremendous interest has been evoked in vortex beams featuring spiral wavefronts, little research has been devoted to the vortex beam embedded Janus waves, i.e., Janus vortex beams. We propose a liquid crystal (LC) Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase element to demonstrate the realization of the Janus vortex beams and the modulation of the associated orbit angular momentum (OAM) and spin angular momentum (SAM). The generated Janus vortex beams show opposite OAM and SAM states at two distinct foci, revealing a spin-orbit interaction during propagation enabled by the LC PB phase element, which may play special roles in applications such as optical encryption and decryption. Other merits like reconfigurability and flexible switching between Janus vortex beams and autofocusing or autodefocusing vortex beams additionally increase the degree of freedom of manipulating vortex beams. This work provides a platform for tailoring complex structured light and may enrich the applications of vortex beams in classical and quantum optics.
Janus vortex beam liquid crystal Pancharatnam–Berry phase orbit angular momentum spin angular momentum Advanced Photonics Nexus
2022, 1(2): 026003
1 中国科学技术大学光学与光学工程系, 安徽 合肥 230026
2 合肥微尺度国家研究中心, 安徽 合肥 230026
光同时具有自旋和轨道角动量属性, 它们分别与光的偏振和相位分布相关。在傍轴条件下, 光的自旋和轨道角动量在自由空间传输过程中是相互独立且各自守恒的。而在非傍轴条件下, 如紧聚焦或者散射光场中, 光的自旋与轨道角动量之间会发生相互耦合和转化。其中, 紧聚焦场中自旋与轨道角动量的相互作用由于广泛涉及光学捕获、显微和探测等应用领域, 近年来受到广泛关注。综述了紧聚焦场中自旋、轨道角动量理论计算方法, 自旋-轨道角动量相互作用与入射结构光场的关系以及最新的相关应用研究进展。
傅里叶光学 紧聚焦 自旋角动量 轨道角动量 自旋- 轨道角动量相互作用 光捕获 Fourier optics tight focusing spin angular momentum orbital angular momentum spin-orbital angular momentum interaction optical trapping