Cascade Raman sideband generation and orbital angular momentum relations for paraxial beam modes. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In this work, the nonlinear parametric interaction of optical radiation in various transverse modes in a Raman-active medium is investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Verification of the orbital angular momentum algebra (OAM-algebra) [Strohaber et al.,Opt. Lett.37,3411 (2012)] was performed for high-order Laguerre Gaussian modes >1. It was found that this same algebra also describes the coherent transfer of OAM when Ince-Gaussian modes were used. New theoretical considerations extend the OAM-algebra to even and odd Laguerre Gaussian, and Hermite Gaussian beam modes through a change of basis. The results of this work provide details in the spatiotemporal synthesis of custom broadband pulses of radiation from Raman sideband generation.

published proceedings

  • Opt Express

author list (cited authors)

  • Strohaber, J., Abul, J., Richardson, M., Zhu, F., Kolomenskii, A. A., & Schuessler, H. A.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Strohaber, J||Abul, J||Richardson, M||Zhu, F||Kolomenskii, AA||Schuessler, HA

publication date

  • August 2015