Coherent transfer of optical orbital angular momentum in multi-order Raman sideband generation. Academic Article

abstract

• Experimental results from the generation of Raman sidebands using optical vortices are presented. By generating two sets of sidebands originating from different locations in a Raman-active crystal, one set containing optical orbital angular momentum and the other serving as a reference, Young's double slit experiment was simultaneously realized for each sideband. The interference between the two sets of sidebands was used to determine the helicity and topological charge in each order. Topological charges in all orders were found to be discrete and follow selection rules predicted by a cascaded Raman process.

authors

• Schuessler, Hans
• Sokolov, Alexei

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Strohaber, J., Zhi, M., Sokolov, A. V., Kolomenskii, A. A., Paulus, G. G., & Schuessler, H. A.

citation count

• 31

complete list of authors

• Strohaber, J||Zhi, M||Sokolov, AV||Kolomenskii, AA||Paulus, GG||Schuessler, HA

publication date

• August 2012

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.37.003411

start page

• 3411

end page

• 3413

volume

• 37

issue

• 16

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.37.003411