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Index-tunable structured-light beams from a laser with an intracavity astigmatic mode converter

Index-tunable structured-light beams from a laser with an intracavity astigmatic mode converter
Index-tunable structured-light beams from a laser with an intracavity astigmatic mode converter
Structured-light lasers are highly topical due to not only their ability to tailor customized distribution of intensity, phase, orbital angular momentum (OAM), and other optical properties, but also the compact and simple at-the-source generation scheme. Here we propose a form of structured-light laser, intracavity mode convertor laser, with the ability to generate two-dimensional (2D) tunable high-order Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes with a large indice range (up to 15). The mode convertor constituted by two cylindrical lenses is always used for external OAM conversion, but here we show that it can be inserted into a laser cavity as an intracavity element for symmetry-breaking control, which we also demonstrate with a complete matrix optics theory. The generated 2D HG modes can also be converted into Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) vortex beams with both tunable OAM and radial momentum. Moreover, we also show the ability to directly generate vortex beam from our laser cavity. Our approach meets the urgent necessity for a practical laser device for more versatile light, providing more alternative parametric space for structure control and fostering extended applications.
2331-7019
Pan, Jing
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Shen, Yijie
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Fu, Xing
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Zhang, Hengkang
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Pan, Jing
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Fu, Xing
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Pan, Jing, Shen, Yijie, Wan, Zhensong, Fu, Xing, Zhang, Hengkang and Liu, Qiang (2020) Index-tunable structured-light beams from a laser with an intracavity astigmatic mode converter. Physical Review Applied, 14 (4), [044048]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.044048).

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Structured-light lasers are highly topical due to not only their ability to tailor customized distribution of intensity, phase, orbital angular momentum (OAM), and other optical properties, but also the compact and simple at-the-source generation scheme. Here we propose a form of structured-light laser, intracavity mode convertor laser, with the ability to generate two-dimensional (2D) tunable high-order Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes with a large indice range (up to 15). The mode convertor constituted by two cylindrical lenses is always used for external OAM conversion, but here we show that it can be inserted into a laser cavity as an intracavity element for symmetry-breaking control, which we also demonstrate with a complete matrix optics theory. The generated 2D HG modes can also be converted into Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) vortex beams with both tunable OAM and radial momentum. Moreover, we also show the ability to directly generate vortex beam from our laser cavity. Our approach meets the urgent necessity for a practical laser device for more versatile light, providing more alternative parametric space for structure control and fostering extended applications.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 September 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 October 2020
Published date: 26 October 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: National Natural Science Foundation of China (61875100), National Natural Science Foundation of China (61975087), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB1104500), Beijing Young Talents Support Project (2017000020124G044), and Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellowship in Europe (GA713694). Publisher Copyright: © 2020 American Physical Society.

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Local EPrints ID: 445365
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/445365
ISSN: 2331-7019
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Date deposited: 04 Dec 2020 17:30
Last modified: 05 Jun 2024 19:52

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Author: Jing Pan
Author: Yijie Shen
Author: Zhensong Wan
Author: Xing Fu
Author: Hengkang Zhang
Author: Qiang Liu

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