Twisted light, or orbital angular momentum (OAM) carrying light, has been gradually becoming an important subfield of nonlinear optics. Compared with ordinary light, its chiral phase front provides an additional interface for shaping the phase-matching condition of nonlinear interactions and in consequence reveals a feasible way to tailor light's transverse structure. Here, we explore the nonlinear propagation of twisted light during focused stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Unlike ordinary light that will experience a time-reversal nonlinear reflection, OAM carrying light will break up into corresponding petal-like degenerate OAM modes that carry no net OAM, whereas the superposed OAM modes that carry no net OAM, as the input field, are still time–reversed in focused-SBS. This unexpected phenomenon, resulting from a unique OAM selection rule of noise-initiated SBS, gives more insight into the underlying principle of OAM conservation in electromagnetic interactions and provides an approach to shaping light via nonlinear propagation.
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16 April 2018
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April 18 2018
Fragmentation of twisted light in photon–phonon nonlinear propagation
Zhi-Han Zhu;
Zhi-Han Zhu
a)
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
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Peng Chen
;
Peng Chen
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
2
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University
, Nanjing 210093, China
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Hong-Wei Li;
Hong-Wei Li
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
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Bo Zhao;
Bo Zhao
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Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
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Zhi-Yuan Zhou
;
Zhi-Yuan Zhou
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
3
CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China
, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Wei Hu
;
Wei Hu
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
2
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University
, Nanjing 210093, China
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Wei Gao;
Wei Gao
b)
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Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
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Yan-Qing Lu;
Yan-Qing Lu
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
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National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University
, Nanjing 210093, China
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Bao-Sen Shi
Bao-Sen Shi
1
Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Regulation and Control, Wang Da-Heng Collaborative Innovation Center, Harbin University of Science and Technology
, Harbin 150080, China
3
CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China
, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Electronic mail: zhuzhihan@hrbust.edu.cn
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Electronic mail: wei_g@163.com
Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 161103 (2018)
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Received:
December 19 2017
Accepted:
April 08 2018
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Zhi-Han Zhu, Peng Chen, Hong-Wei Li, Bo Zhao, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Wei Hu, Wei Gao, Yan-Qing Lu, Bao-Sen Shi; Fragmentation of twisted light in photon–phonon nonlinear propagation. Appl. Phys. Lett. 16 April 2018; 112 (16): 161103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5020082
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