Intrinsic angular momentum, spin and helicity of higher-order Poincaré modes

IF 2 4区 物理与天体物理 Q3 OPTICS
M Babiker, K Koksal, V E Lembessis and J Yuan
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Abstract

The availability of coherent sources of higher order Poincaré optical beams have opened up new opportunities for applications such as in the optical trapping of atoms and small particles, the manipulation of chirally-sensitive systems and in improved encoding schemes for broad-bandwidth communications. Here we determine the intrinsic properties of integer order Poincaré Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes which have so far neither been evaluated, nor their significance highlighted. The theoretical framework we adopt here is both novel and essential because it emphasises the crucial role played by the normally ignored axial components of the twisted light fields of these modes. We show that the inclusion of the axial field components enables the intrinsic properties of the Poincaré modes, notably their angular momentum, both spin and orbital as well as their helicity and chirality, to be determined. We predict significant enhancements of the intrinsic properties of these modes when compared with those due to the zero order LG modes. In particular, we show that higher order LG Poincaré modes exhibit super-chirality and, significantly so, even in the case of the first order m = 1.
高阶庞加莱模式的内在角动量、自旋和螺旋度
高阶波恩卡莱光束相干源的出现为原子和小粒子的光学捕获、啁啾敏感系统的操纵以及宽带通信编码方案的改进等应用开辟了新的机遇。在这里,我们确定了整数阶的Poincaré Laguerre-Gaussian(LG)模式的内在特性,迄今为止,这些特性既未得到评估,其重要性也未得到强调。我们在此采用的理论框架既新颖又重要,因为它强调了这些模式的扭曲光场中通常被忽略的轴向分量所发挥的关键作用。我们的研究表明,加入轴向场分量可以确定波恩卡莱模式的固有特性,特别是其角动量(包括自旋和轨道)以及螺旋度和手性。我们预测,与零阶 LG 模式相比,这些模式的固有特性会明显增强。特别是,我们发现高阶 LG 波恩卡莱模式表现出超手性,甚至在一阶 m = 1 的情况下也是如此。
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CiteScore
4.50
自引率
4.80%
发文量
237
审稿时长
1.9 months
期刊介绍: Journal of Optics publishes new experimental and theoretical research across all areas of pure and applied optics, both modern and classical. Research areas are categorised as: Nanophotonics and plasmonics Metamaterials and structured photonic materials Quantum photonics Biophotonics Light-matter interactions Nonlinear and ultrafast optics Propagation, diffraction and scattering Optical communication Integrated optics Photovoltaics and energy harvesting We discourage incremental advances, purely numerical simulations without any validation, or research without a strong optics advance, e.g. computer algorithms applied to optical and imaging processes, equipment designs or material fabrication.
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