Dynamics of optical spin-orbit coupling in uniaxial crystals.

abstract

• We study theoretically and verify experimentally the detailed dynamics of spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion for a circularly polarized Gaussian beam propagating along the optical axis of a uniaxial crystal. We extend the results to the case of white-light beams when each of the spectral components undergoes its own wavelength-dependent angular momentum conversion process.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Brasselet, E., Izdebskaya, Y., Shvedov, V., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 103

complete list of authors

• Brasselet, Etienne||Izdebskaya, Yana||Shvedov, Vladlen||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• April 2009

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0299 Other Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 19340206

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ol.34.001021

start page

• 1021

end page

• 1023

volume

• 34

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.34.001021