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Identifying orbital angular momentum of light in quantum wells

Optics 2019-06-26 v1

Abstract

Generation and detection of structured light have recently been the subject of intense study, aiming to realize high-capacity optical storage and continuous-variable quantum technologies. Here, we present a scheme to extract the orbital angular momentum content of Laguerre-Gaussian light beams in a double-Λ\Lambda four level system of GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells. Arising from a quantum interference term, absorption of a non-vortex probe field depends upon the azimuthal phase of vortex fields so that both magnitude and sign of the azimuthal index/indices can be mapped into the absorption profile.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01912,
  title  = {Identifying orbital angular momentum of light in quantum wells},
  author = {Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi and Mohammad Mahmoudi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01912},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures