Coherent transfer of optical orbital angular momentum in multi-order Raman sideband generation
Quantum Physics
2015-06-05 v1 Optics
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, a 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.
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@article{arxiv.1205.6528,
title = {Coherent transfer of optical orbital angular momentum in multi-order Raman sideband generation},
author = {J. Strohaber and M. Zhi and A. V. Sokolov and A. A. Kolomenskii and G. G. Paulus and H. A. Schuessler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6528},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures