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Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere

We construct an experimental setup, consisting of conical refraction transformation in two biaxial cascade crystals and 4f-system, to realize Unitary transformation of light beam and the manipulation of Poincaré beams on the different parts of Poincaré sphere. The spatial structure of the polarizati...

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Autores principales: Sun, Xibo, Geng, Yuanchao, Zhu, Qihua, Huang, Wanqing, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Wenyi, Liu, Lanqin
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32859974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71189-2
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author Sun, Xibo
Geng, Yuanchao
Zhu, Qihua
Huang, Wanqing
Zhang, Ying
Wang, Wenyi
Liu, Lanqin
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Zhu, Qihua
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description We construct an experimental setup, consisting of conical refraction transformation in two biaxial cascade crystals and 4f-system, to realize Unitary transformation of light beam and the manipulation of Poincaré beams on the different parts of Poincaré sphere. The spatial structure of the polarization can be controlled by changing the polarization of the incident beam or rotating the angle between these two crystals. The beams with different SoPs covering the full-Poincaré sphere, part-Poincaré sphere and one point on the sphere are generated for the different angles between crystals. The Unitary transformation of light beam is proposed in the experiment with the invariant intensity distribution. Subsequently, the spin angular momentum is derived from the distribution of polarization measured in our experiment. Moreover, the conversion between orbital angular momentum and spin angular momentum of light beam is obtained by changing the angle between crystals. And the conversion progress can also be influenced by the polarization of incident beam. We realized the continuous control of the spatial structure of the angular momentum density, which has potential in the manipulation of optical trapping systems and polarization-multiplexed free-space optical communication.
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spelling pubmed-74557382020-09-01 Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere Sun, Xibo Geng, Yuanchao Zhu, Qihua Huang, Wanqing Zhang, Ying Wang, Wenyi Liu, Lanqin Sci Rep Article We construct an experimental setup, consisting of conical refraction transformation in two biaxial cascade crystals and 4f-system, to realize Unitary transformation of light beam and the manipulation of Poincaré beams on the different parts of Poincaré sphere. The spatial structure of the polarization can be controlled by changing the polarization of the incident beam or rotating the angle between these two crystals. The beams with different SoPs covering the full-Poincaré sphere, part-Poincaré sphere and one point on the sphere are generated for the different angles between crystals. The Unitary transformation of light beam is proposed in the experiment with the invariant intensity distribution. Subsequently, the spin angular momentum is derived from the distribution of polarization measured in our experiment. Moreover, the conversion between orbital angular momentum and spin angular momentum of light beam is obtained by changing the angle between crystals. And the conversion progress can also be influenced by the polarization of incident beam. We realized the continuous control of the spatial structure of the angular momentum density, which has potential in the manipulation of optical trapping systems and polarization-multiplexed free-space optical communication. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7455738/ /pubmed/32859974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71189-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_full Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere
title_fullStr Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere
title_full_unstemmed Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere
title_short Unitary transformation for Poincaré beams on different parts of Poincaré sphere
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7455738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32859974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71189-2
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