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1 Introduction
Structured light1 refers to the modern-day ability to tailor light in all its degrees of freedom (DoFs), spatial and temporal, to create complex optical fields in both the classical2-5 and quantum6, 7 domains. Combining DoFs have given rise to novel and exotic states of light as 2D, 3D and even 4D fields, including optical knots8, 9, skyrmions10, 11, Mobius strips12, spatio-temporal fields13-16, ray-wave structured fields17, 18, quantum-like classical light19-21 and photonic wheels22. But although the progress has been rapid of late, the topic itself can be dated back to Thomas Young and his double slit experiment, where arguably the first structured light was created. Indeed, the very essence of structured light is the notion of superpositions, where interference (not necessarily in intensity) gives rise to the desired structure. Today one can formulate all of structured light as a linear superposition principle1, giving rise to geometric representations of the superpositions, from the orbital angular momentum (OAM)23, to the total angular momentum24 of light, and more recently a generalised framework for multiple DoFs25. For example, even simple plane waves hold the potential for structure: one plane wave may have a phase gradient, two plane waves will give rise to an intensity structure (as done by Young more than 200 years ago), three plane waves can produce an optical phase singularity, while multiple plane waves can give rise to exotic families of structured light, for instance, planes waves travelling on a cone give rise to Bessel beams26. If the interfering plane waves are allowed to hold information in another DoF, say polarization, then just two can create exotic polarization structures27 and if focussed, will create synthetic chiral light in 3D28. It is clear that there is a strong link between interference, a linear effect, and structured light. For this reason, the vast bulk of studies involving structured light have considered linear optical elements, with only much more recent progress in nonlinear optics with structured light, the topic of this review.
The invention of the laser29 is seen as fundamental to the development of the research field of nonlinear optics, with the first nonlinear optical demonstration of second harmonic generation (SHG)30 following quickly, soon after by third harmonic generation31 and SHG carrying spin angular momentum (SAM)32. The reason for the strong historical linkage is simple: nonlinear optical phenomena are weak and typically need a coherent high power source to be observed. This knowledge can be dated back as far a Fresnel, who already understood that wave superpositions could transcend the linear regime. With the development of stronger laser sources and more efficient nonlinear materials, we have overcome this requirement. It is only natural then that the study of nonlinear optical phenomena shifts from asking “how much light is there?” based on efficiency concerns (intensity being the key to address this), to “what does the light look like?” (the structure of the light). Seminal works began analysing the structure of the generated light three decades ago33 with early work demonstrating the doubling of the number of singularities in the generated field34. Following the link between orbital angular momentum (OAM) and these so-called screw dislocations (see ref.35 and references therein), the use of OAM carrying Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes in nonlinear optics was demonstrated36 followed a little later by the first production of quantum structured photons by nonlinear optics, demonstrating OAM entangled states37. Although these important works set the scene, further progress has been slow, until only recently.
In this review we follow the progress in the field, from intensity drive processes that serve to alter the frequency of the pump light, to the present day nonlinear toolkit for the creation, manipulation and detection of structured light. We begin with the familiar wave mixing processes of second order, which have been deeply explored and continue to develop to this day, serving to exemplify how counter-intuitive these interactions can be with the introduction of structured light. We then move on to show the types of media that allow these process and how they can also be structured, playing a crucial role in recent advances. We expand into higher-order parametric processes, including third harmonic generation and the generation of optical vortex solitons. Finally, we cite recent developments in high harmonic generation, an extreme non-parametric process, and the unusual applications of nonlinear processes in the quantum regime.
2 Theoretical background
The field of nonlinear optics is a venerable topic, and the reader is referred to excellent textbooks on the topic38-40. For the benefit of the reader, We begin by briefly outlining the core theory needed for the review, and to this end we begin with Maxwell's equations in the presence of a medium. If condensed and rewritten in terms of a wave equation, one finds,
where
where
But what are the governing principles when the light has internal structure? In this review we will often use scalar and vectorial combinations of light that carries OAM, a highly topical example. Such modes of light have an azimuthal phase profile given by
With suitable approximations (such as the slowly varying envelope approximation and lossless media) the generated field in three wave mixing can take the form
Similar differential equations are also derived for each frequency, initially obtaining three coupled differential equations. While these equations were initally derived as plane waves, structured light reveals more intricate interactions. For example, the phases and intensities are all intertwined: reshaping one field can mean completely new dynamics and new structures in all three involved fields. Due to the low conversion efficiency, a characteristic of nonlinear processes, in single-pass geometry we can make use of the non-depletion approximation, where the input fields can be regarded as static and therefore do not change on propagation. These equations show one remarkable feature of nonlinear optics: the nontriviality of the superposition principle. For example, let us associate the generated field
The expansion of these fields into propagating waves in different directions gives us the phase-matching quantity
That ensures that the light generated is through a coherent process and interferes constructively at each wavefront generation. When
Fig. 1. Linear and nonlinear processes. Using second harmonic generation (SHG), we illustrate the differences between linear and nonlinear processes. (a ) Linear processes produce an output mode that is the addition of two input spatial modes of light, while SHG produces the product of the two modes. The linear superposition of two different modes with orthogonal polarization states generates a vector beam, which has a inhomogeneous polarization state. The polarization profile is represented as yellow lines across the transverse profile. In SHG, and wave mixing in general, the polarization profile will dictate where wave mixing happens and thus alter directly the spatial profile. In (b ) we show exemplify how path can also be controlled via polarization and the different phase matching conditions of crystals, including the periodic poling of type-0. The mechanism which allows these interactions is sketched in (c ). Phase-matching is the condition necessary for wave mixing to occur and exploits birefringence (types I and II) or periodical polling (type-0) to achieve it.
Polarization also has a non-immediate role. In the linear regime, optical beams with orthogonal polarization states do not interfere to produce fringes (but they do produce fringes in polarization27, 41). In contrast, in nonlinear media, they do interact through the coupled interactions with the medium. If the input beam has a inhomogenous polarization profile, i.e. vector beam, then this interaction is different in every point of the transverse profile. We illustrate this in
The combination of
3 Structured dofs and their nonlinear coupling
By choosing sum-frequency generation and breaking wavelength degeneracy, it is possible to encode different structures in each frequency. If one of the fields is physically expanded and thus approximated to be a plane wave, we see the directly transfer and manipulation of the spatial profile of a beam across wavelengths42-44. In this case, the lack of structure of one field enables the generated beam to completely inherit the structure from the other. By using different spatial modes in each frequency, it was possible to perform OAM algebra45. This creates an interesting interaction where the wavelength is used as a control parameter for the spatial structure.
In initial works with SHG it was observed that the generated field would be proportional to the square of the fundamental frequency36, as it is possible to see in
The path degree of freedom can also be used: in
Fig. 2. Wave mixing with different degrees of freedom. In (a ), the authors show OAM algebra in noncollinear SHG. When type-II phase-matching is used, the same noncollinear geometry allows for polarization switching, shown in (b ). This effectively couples multiple degrees of freedom in a single process: path, polarization, radial and angular transverse structures. The radial selection rules of LG modes in wave mixing are demonstrated in (c ). There is a intrinsic relation between the radial and angular degrees of freedom, which is manifested in the propagation dependence of the spatial profiles. In (d ), a experimental scheme using a Sagnac interferometer achieves faithful frequency conversion of vector light. Spin and orbital angular momentum are combined in second harmonic generation in (e ). Figure repoduced with permission from: (a) ref.48, Springer Nature; (b) ref.50, © Optica Publishing Group; (c) ref.54, © American Physical Society; (d) ref.69, American Physical Society; (e) ref.70, under aCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
The three process depicted above are independent and do not interfere with each other. Interestingly, not all nonlinear process are independent. Using polarization as a control parameter in type-II SHG, the authors realized that nonlinear process can interfere destructively50. As illustrated in
3.6 Scalar structured light
The fields in
Interestingly, the coupling is not only between light and matter, but between differences in structure of the fields themselves, particularly within a given family. For instance, the “untwisting” of the azimuthal phase of an OAM Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) mode in turn altered the radial index52, 53, with the rules governing this interaction only recently unveiled54, and shown to be true for wave mixing processes of any order55. This intricate relation is illustrated in
Table 1. Behaviour of various structures of light in second order nonlinear wave mixing. Here, nx/ny are the indices for HG modes, ℓ, p are the azimuthal/radial indices for LG modes and p/m are the parameters for Ince-Gaussian modes. Indices with primes, such as ℓ′′ are of fundamental field modes and the ones without are of the frequency generated.
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One might ask if there is there a recipe for the input to the nonlinear process in order to obtain a desired output structured field? The answer can be trivial, where one or more of the input profiles are plane waves and one of them contains the desired structure. By this approach, LG and HG structured modes have been created, as well as general structured images71. When this is not possible, the HG basis is suggested to be optimal72, and has been used for high fidelity mode generation73. Because wave mixing allows for light modulation by light, the process can be adapted to be used as a detector of structured light71, 74, 75, and has been used to detect LG and HG modes with very little modal cross-talk, in a manner analogous to modal decomposition76. Even complex images can be handled in this manner, with the benefit of noise reduction (squaring a signal will amplify the strong and the decrease weak). For this reason, this has been an emerging application of SHG, with demonstrations including augmented edge contrast77, 78 and contrast enhancement to improve recognition of human faces and QR codes79.
3.7 Vectorial structured light
So far we have considered the case where the structured light is scalar, so that the polarization is homogenous across the field. A complex vectorial structure is achieved by combining orthogonally polarized states such that each has its own unique spatial mode. If the spatial modes are also orthogonal, then the polarization structure of the field will be maximally inhomogeous3. On the right-hand side of
A peculiar effect observed in the nonlinear regime is phase conjugation, where the generated beam has the conjugate (negative) phase of a impinging beam. The allure of the nonlinear approach is that no knowledge of the initial phase is required for the process, unlike linear phase conjugation that always requires some wavefront sensing and adaptive control. In nonlinear optics this effect was first achieved and historically associated with four-wave mixing, but it has been shown that a second order effect, Stimulated Parametric Down Conversion, can partially achieve it, conjugating the transverse phase structure88 but not the propagation direction. It has been demonstrated with scalar89 and as well as vector90-92 beams.
3.8 Spin-orbit coupling
In paraxial optics, the spin angular momentum and the orbital angular momentum of a photon are treated as independent degrees of freedom. But even in this regime, we can find instances of these two quantities coupled. A notable example is a special group of vectorial inhomogeneous beams made of spatial modes carrying different OAM in polarization components carrying SAM. Besides these vector vortex beams, conical diffraction93 has been shown to produce optical vortices in the linear regime depending on the input SAM, effectively coupling them. Conical diffraction is a consequence of birefringence and has been reported to excite second harmonic generation in biaxial crystals94-96. The combination of conical diffraction with nonlinear process such as second harmonic generation can be combined to create cascaded processes that operate both on OAM and SAM97. In this interesting example, the SAM is converted into OAM by conical diffraction, but only partially. The two parts (converted and unconverted) then act as fundamental fields for a SHG process of each state. The resulting beams from this conversion also suffer conical diffraction, having their OAM altered according to their SAM. By starting with a simple Gaussian beam with SAM, the authors show these two DoFs can be strongly coupled even in a simple material. However, these two degrees of freedom, while independent and possibly coupled, can interact in a nonlinear process70, as depicted in
3.9 Intra-cavity dynamics
Lasers are a well known nonlinear device, and here too structured light laser cavities have a long history (see ref.98 for a review), with internal frequency generation used extensively for OAM generation99 and even with wavelength tuneability100. While a full review is beyond the scope of this article (see refs.98-100 for good reviews), we briefly highlight some interesting advances. These include intra-cavity geometric phase101 for helicity control, spin-orbit effects102 with high purity, vortex OPOs103 to move into the mid-infrared, wavelength and OAM tuneable lasers104 based on fibre geometries. Most of these solutions have been at low power. Nonlinear laser amplifiers have been used to raise the power levels, both in bulk crystals105 and disks106 with vectorial light, including parameteric amplification of ultrafast structured light107, and with scalar structured light in Erbium fibre amplifiers108 as well as by Raman amplification109.
Frequency converting cavities for structured light at the source include the use of exotic intra-cavity elements such as spatial light modulators for radial modes110 and metasurfaces for super-chiral OAM modes111, with recent work extending to vortex lattices112 and Poincaré beams113. Nonlinear optical elements are often placed in cavities to enhance the efficiency, but this too can influence modal structure. Nonlinear cavities such as Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs) show rich behaviour not seen in free-space propagation. For example, controlling the spatial properties of a Gaussian pumped triple resonant OPO changes its threshold and allows for simultaneous oscillation of several mode pairs with fixed relative phases46, and can result in multiple complex patterns114, 115. A thorough study on the influence of the geometrical properties of the OPO on the generated spatial modes can be seen in116 and their applications in continuous variable entanglement in117. The structured output can be tailored by structuring the pump56, 118, as can the geometry of the cavity itself119, making the cavity selective to specific modes.
4 Structured matter for structured light
The nonlinearity we are discussing refers to the interaction of light and matter. The structure of the output light (created or detected) is therefore tailored by both the input light and the medium, allowing the latter to be tailored. This is achieved when the medium higher-order susceptibility is no longer a constant but instead has a space dependency, e.g.,
4.2 Crystals
In the past this structuring of crystals has been done through acousto-optic modulators, giving rise to effects such as Bragg and Raman-Nath scattering, modulating the refractive index hence the phase matching conditions as well. The modern toolkit includes more direct manipulation of materials (e.g., structured photonic crystal). Phase matching in nonlinear photonic crystals has been well explained and explored123-125 with periodic poling playing a important role in the past decade126, branching into many applications, including a nonlinear version of the Talbot effect127. By introducing a carefully crafted spatial modulation in a nonlinear crystal, it was shown to be possible to control the amplitude and phase of the generated fields128-130. One highlight is the work illustrated in
Fig. 4. Nonlinear optics enabled metasurfaces. These devices were shown to enable non-trivial interactions while frequency converting beams. In (a ) a SHG process coupling SAM and OAM. The combination of frequency conversion with holography creates metasurfaces with metalensing properties in (b )144. An application taking advantage of the high damage threshold of these materials can be seen in (c )111 where the inclusion of a metasurface inside an optical cavity creates a laser with OAM from the source. Figure repoduced with permission from: (a) ref.143, © American Chemical Society; (b) ref.144, under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial No Derivative Works (CC-BY-NC-ND) Attribution License; (c) ref.111, Springer Nature.
The phase-matching conditions involves not only material but also energy constrains. The periodic polling can not only enable frequency control131, 132 but when multiplexed it achieves phase-matching for multiple wavelengths in the same crystal133. Recently, a novel pattern in the periodic polling named quasi-periodic polling achieved simultaneous second and third harmonic generation134. Further, the structuring of the media is not restricted to one dimension: by using oblique incidence on a periodically polled crystal it was possible to couple mode selection with phase matching135, coupling DoFs of light and matter. Photonic crystals can be structured so that phase-matching is crafted in both longitudinal and transverse directions136-138 so that light is structured as it is generated. A thorough review on this emerging area can be seen in ref.139.
An interesting combination of birefringence and periodic polling can be seen in ref.140, where the spatial macroscopic structure complements the unit cell structure to achieve both type-0 and type-II phase-matching simultaneously. Besides changing the structure itself, changing the orientation of the medium can achieve interesting results. The sandwich crystal configuration (a combination of two identical crystals optically joined but oriented at 90°) has been employed for the frequency conversion of vector light82.
As much as the structured of the medium dictates phase-matching, the other way around also happens: we can use this property of the medium from a material analysis perspective141 and use these nonlinear process to characterize crystals according to their symmetry groups142.
4.3 Metasurfaces
The structuring of the medium is not exclusive to crystals, as metasurfaces have been employed in many areas and nonlinear optics is no exception. They have seen a lot of atention recently by achieving high conversion efficiencies. The nanostructures composing these crafted surfaces are capable of confining light in volumes smaller than the diffraction limit145, 146, greatly enhancing nonlinear effects. Excellent reviews can be found in ref.145, 147, 148. They are structured by definition and can combine wavelength conversion with wavefront control149-151, spin-orbit interactions152, OAM operations involving SAM143, image encoding153 and optical activity154. Two illustrative cases can be highlighted: OAM-SAM interactions143 and metalensing144. By creating gold meta-atoms with three-fold symmetry, the authors in ref.143 arranged the metasurface to enable azimuthal geometric phase and frequency conversion at the same time, creating devices depicted in
Fig. 3. Nonlinear Holography. In (a ) the structuring of the medium is illustrated: the fundamental field is always the same, but the medium is not. The selective inversion of the electric domain across the transverse plane creates different spatial structures in the second harmonic field. The periodical transverse structure is responsible for multiple phase matching mechanisms, both longitudinally and transversely. In (b ) it is shown how non-collinear SHG can transfer a specific intensity pattern from one wavelength to the other. First row shows the imaging arrangement and the second column shows the phase-matching conditions and an example of output modes. Right below is a experimental demonstration that this can be used for real-time frequency conversion of computer generated holograms. Figure repoduced from: (a) ref.130, © American Physical Society; (b) ref.158, © Optica Publishing Group.
5 Nonlinear holography
Since very early in the study of nonlinear optics, it was understood that wave mixing meant modulation and that this could be used for holography155. In the original version, the counter-propagating fields involved in the four-wave mixing formed a grating that changed the generated field. Nowadays, we have more advanced forms of holography. When looking at
In this sense, by shaping the fundamental beam as a hologram it is possible to modulate the generated beam as it is created156. This process allows for holograms that are self adaptive and depend on the generating fields, being able to copy or regenerate optical modes157, even complex patterns in real time158. In this example, illustrated in
If the interaction happens in more than a single plane, i.e. the medium is longer than a diffraction length, these approaches can be extended to three dimensions for volume holography159, 160 in nonlinear crystals, and the reader is referred to refs.161-163 for excellent reviews on this topic.
6 Four-wave mixing
As we consider higher-order nonlinear effects, wave-mixing becomes increasingly complex. For example, OAM conservation in a four-wave mixing (FWM) process with third order nonlinearity was observed in cold cesium gas in ref.164 where only one beam was structured with OAM, resulting in the transfer of OAM to the generated beam and similarly with modal superposition165. This was later expanded to include both probe and pump having OAM166, 167, where the phase matching conditions can be fulfilled in more directions than lower order process and this results in the creation of a higher number of states created in different paths, as depicted in
Fig. 5. Higher order process. In the generation of high harmonic orders, it is possible to generate beams of many different OAM from just two different inputs, as depicted in (a ). The process of writting and reading optical memory is depicted in (b ) and the diference in time scales depending on the order of the nonlinear process in (c ). In (d ) it is demonstrated robust self-trapping of a bright vortex beam by exploiting higher order nonlinearities of odd orders. Figure repoduced from: (a) ref.209, Springer Nature; (b) ref.191, © Optica Publishing Group; (c) ref.192, © Optica Publishing Group; (d) ref.204, © American Physical Society.
Using a long medium approximation, radial and angular mode conversion by FWM in a heated Rb vapour was demonstrated, making evident the role of the Gouy phase-matching in this regime170. Beyond just spatial DoFs, the spatial and temporal DoFs are not independent in this process171, where frequency control enables selection of various spatial modes as outputs.
Recent developments with dielectric materials have been shown to enable four-wave mixing with high efficiency. These materials have been crafted in the nanoscale as plasmonic nanoantennas172, 173, metasurfaces145-148, nanodisks174, enabling not only frequency conversion to a wider range of wavelengths but the intrinsic structure also motivated simultaneous wavefront shaping144.
7 High-harmonic generation
High-harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme process, not regarded as perturbative process and cannot be represented in
8 Space-time coupling
The medium cannot interact instantly with light: first, structured light interacts with a medium that inherits this structure momentarily. When the first light source is no longer there, a second light source interacts with the medium and inherits the structure of the first one. This effect is known as optical memory and is regarded as a possibility for storing quantum information in a multi-dimensional state space. A demonstration of this principle was observed in ref.188, where light interacting with an atomic system (cold cesium gas) induced by a coherence grating lead to OAM conservation, a first step towards the demonstration of optical storage. This spatially dependent coherence transferred to the medium was shown be maintained in time189, reporting storage times of up to 100 μs. It was shown in ref.190 that it is possible to store OAM in the same system and also retrieve it by employing Bragg diffraction. The same effect was also achieved in ref.191 but exploiting a different effect: coherent population oscilation, which uses the long relaxation time of the ground state of an open two-level system to store information carried by a light field. This process is depicted in
While the process described above couples a specific structure to another during a time window, there are light structures that are notorious for having its time and space non-separable: the spatiotemporal optical vortices14, 194. These beams exhibit OAM transverse to propagation direction, instead of usual longitudinal OAM of phase vortex beams. One might wonder if these space-time structures would hold in the nonlinear regime. Recent works showed that in SHG the spatiotemporal OAM is also conserved195, 196, while also reporting effects such as time astigmatism and singularity splitting due to group-velocity dispersion.
9 Spatial solitons
The self-focusing action of a medium can balance precisely the diffraction of a beam, resulting in the creation of optical solitons. The first observed optical solitons were dark vortex solitons, which are phase vortices that propagate in a self-defocusing medium with third order nonlinearity
On the other hand, bright phase vortices suffer from azimuthal modulation instability in self focusing media, which results in their splitting and thus, were hard to be observed. This type of instability in the transverse modulation is similar to one responsible on the filamentation of beams and generation on trains of optical solitons198.
However, by using non-centrosymetric metal-dielectric nanocomposites, higher-order nonlinear effects such as fifth and seventh order become dominant and cause self-phase modulation199, 200. This ultimately allowed for the observation of stable bright vortex solitons in ref.201-204. In
10 Quantum regime
Nonlinear processes have long been associated with quantum optics as the source of entangled photons. The most common source of entangled photons is Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC)210, a nonlinear process at its core. By harnessing entanglement and the transverse structure of the photons it is possible to increase the dimensions of quantum protocols6. This is often achieved by post-selecting a particular state, the choice of which affects the bi-photon entanglement spectrum in both its shape and dimensionality. This was first realized using OAM37 and subsequently many transverse structures were studied211-215, as well as inhomogenously polarized beams92, 216 and multi-path schemes217, 218. Soon after it followed that it was possible to engineer the pump profile to manipulate the bi-photon spectrum and generate a entanglement spectrum straight out of the source219-223. Beyond nonlinear optics for creation, the detection and control of quantum states by nonlinear processes has been far less studies, and very much in its infancy.
Although quantum technologies have experienced rapid development in recent years, with light playing a key role, this has mostly been restricted to linear optical solutions, e.g., the ubiquitous beam splitter. For optical systems, a photon-photon interaction in vacuum is not possible. While this is partially true in matter as well, we observe in the nonlinear regime a photon-photon interaction mediated by the medium. Unfortunately this interaction is very unlikely to happen, but it does not mean impossible as this mixture have seen important advances recently (see ref.224 for a good review), with the building block of single photon wave mixing225. Nonlinear optics have been suggested in various quantum processes226-229 and even used for Bell filters230 for polarization, entanglement swapping231 and a quantum repeater device232, 233. Only recently has structured light entered the equation, with a nonlinear version of spatial teleportation demonstrated with up to 10 modes, overcoming the significant hurdle of ancilliary photons and settting a new state-of-the-art of 10 dimensional teleportation234.
11 Conclusion
In this review we have touched many topics regarding nonlinear optics with structured light. Unlike linear optics, which generally act on only one degree of freedom, these process have the intriguing feature of coupling many DoFs through the properties of the medium. The possibility is for compact solutions for the creation, control and detection of structured light, yet many open questions remain: what structures can we create? How can we transfer structures within and between DoFs? What is the exact input one would need to generate a specific desired output? These questions are still open even in the lowest order of wave mixing. As new light-matter interactions are discovered in the nonlinear regime, it is exciting to see how their structures couple and what insights can be deduced.
From real time holographic transmission to optical memory effects, from bulk crystalline media to sparse gas jets, there are many physical phenomena that are nonlinear optical processes. The development of new materials, techniques and interactions, alongside ever more powerful laser sources, all signal an exciting future for nonlinear control of structured light, and structured light control of nonlinear processes.
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Article Outline
Wagner Tavares Buono, Andrew Forbes. Nonlinear optics with structured light[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2022, 5(6): 210174.