Publication Date:
2017-03-18
Description:
Author(s): Alwin M. W. Tam, Fan Fan, Tao Du, Wei Hu, Wanlong Zhang, Chenxiang Zhao, Xiaoqian Wang, Kwong-Lung Ching, Guijun Li, Hailu Luo, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Shuangchun Wen, and Hoi-Sing Kwok In an optical vortex beam, each photon carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), a useful resource for applications in optical communication and quantum information processing. The authors demonstrate a diffractive bifocal vortex lens that generates and sorts light beams of different OAM, by means of polarization control. Placing the lens inside a cavity, a vortex-beam laser with a chosen OAM can be realized. Moreover, the lens’s OAM sorting can be used in a multifocal optical-trapping system that facilitates the manipulation of nanoparticles, molecules, and biological samples. [Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 034010] Published Fri Mar 17, 2017
Electronic ISSN:
2331-7019
Topics:
Physics
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