Spectral self-imaging of optical orbital angular momentum modes

The Talbot self-imaging effect is mostly present in the forms of space or time, or in the frequency domain by the Fourier duality. Here, we disclose a new spectral Talbot effect arising in optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. The effect occurs in the context of petal-like beams, which are t...

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Published inAPL photonics Vol. 6; no. 11; pp. 111302 - 111302-8
Main Authors Lin, Zhongzheng, Hu, Jianqi, Chen, Yujie, Yu, Siyuan, Brès, Camille-Sophie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published AIP Publishing LLC 01.11.2021
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Summary:The Talbot self-imaging effect is mostly present in the forms of space or time, or in the frequency domain by the Fourier duality. Here, we disclose a new spectral Talbot effect arising in optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes. The effect occurs in the context of petal-like beams, which are typically constructed from a number of in-phase equidistant OAM modes with at least one void mode in between. When illuminating such beams on phase masks that are azimuthally modulated with Talbot phases, the initial OAM modes are self-imaged to create new OAM modes, meanwhile preserving the initial OAM spectral profile. Such a phenomenon is theoretically predicted, and a close analogy is drawn with the spectral Talbot effect of frequency combs. The prediction is also experimentally confirmed by observing versatile spectral self-imaging on various optical petal-like beams.
ISSN:2378-0967
2378-0967
DOI:10.1063/5.0067668