Modulation of orbital angular momentum on the propagation dynamics of light fields

Abstract

Optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted extensive attention in recent decades because of their interesting applications in optical trapping, optical machining, optical communication, quantum information, and optical microscopy. Intriguing effects induced by OAMs, such as angular momentum conversion, spin Hall effect of light (SHEL), and spin–orbital interaction, have also gained increasing interest. In this article, we provide an overview of the modulations of OAMs on the propagation dynamics of scalar and vector fields in free space. First, we introduce the evolution of canonical and noncanonical optical vortices and analyze the modulations by means of local spatial frequency. Second, we review the Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phases arising from spin–orbital interaction and reveal the control of beam evolution referring to novel behavior such as spin-dependent splitting and polarization singularity conversion. Finally, we discuss the propagation and focusing properties of azimuthally broken vector vortex beams.

Keywords

orbital angular momentum / polarization / spin angular momentum / Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase / angular diffraction

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 11634010, 11404262, 61675168, U1630125 and 61377035); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3102015ZY057); and Innovation Foundation for Doctor Dissertation of North-western Polytechnical University (No. CX201629).

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