大气湍流信道中聚焦涡旋光束轨道角动量串扰特性

携带轨道角动量的涡旋光束作为传输信息的载体能有效提高信息传输效率,然而在传输过程中受大气湍流影响轨道角动量会发生串扰.基于螺旋谱分析理论,推导得到了聚焦拉盖尔高斯光束在各向异性大气湍流中传输时的螺旋谱解析表达式,并对比分析不同湍流和光束参数对聚焦与非聚焦拉盖尔高斯光束接收功率的影响,最后利用多相位屏法进行模拟验证.结果表明:随着传输距离、湍流强度、拓扑荷数的增大以及湍流内尺度、光束波长的减小,接收功率减小,轨道角动量串扰增大;接收孔径到达一定值时对轨道角动量串扰的影响非常小;聚焦光束比非聚焦光束的轨道角动量串扰要小.这些结果将对提高自由空间光通信的质量有一定意义.     

拉盖尔高斯光的衍射和轨道角动量的弥散

根据菲涅耳衍射积分和拉盖尔高斯光束场强分布,对拉盖高斯光束中的圆孔衍射、单缝衍射和方孔衍射进行了研究,并分析了拉盖高斯光束的相位结构对光束衍射后场分布的影响。拉盖高斯光束的相位奇点落在衍射孔中心时,由螺旋谱计算出拉盖高斯光束通过单缝和方孔衍射后的轨道角动量的弥散程度,从理论上证明了拉盖尔高斯光束通过圆孔衍射后,轨道角动量不发生弥散。     

单光子轨道角动量的传输特性研究

描述了高阶椭圆厄米-高斯光束及其单光子平均轨道角动量,并分析了一些与其单光子轨道角动量变化的有关情况,通过计算机仿真简要进行了说明.最后分析了单光子轨道角动量在空间某范围的概率分布及其变化情况.研究结果表明,高阶椭圆厄米-高斯光束与物质相互作用时,其单光子平均轨道角动量的变化幅度随接触物质材料的不同而异.     

基于机器学习检测相位畸变后的涡旋光束轨道角动量

针对涡旋光受大气湍流而产生的相位畸变问题,设计了卷积神经网络检测涡旋光束轨道角动量态.将相位畸变的拉盖尔高斯涡旋光光强图像作为样本数据输入,网络利用输入的数据集进行自主学习,经过多次迭代能够精确检测出光束高阶轨道角动量信息.仿真结果表明:在大气湍流强度不确定的情况下,模型对轨道角动量态范围为1～40、1～100、1～1...     

大气信道中单光子轨道角动量纠缠特性的研究

本文讨论了大气信道中轨道角动量纠缠光子对的纠缠度, 并利用von Karman大气湍流谱来建立双光子纠缠度的模型, 分析了大气湍流对不同轨道角动量纠缠光子对纠缠度的影响. 研究表明: 在大气信道中, 由于大气湍流的存在, 纠缠光子对的纠缠度随着传输距离z的增加而减小; 大气湍流强度越大, 纠缠光子对的纠缠度下降的越快, 纠缠光子对传输的距离越小; 在湍流强度相同的大气信道轨道角动量指数越大的纠缠光子对, 纠缠度下降得越慢, 纠缠光子对传输的距离越远.     

高斯涡旋光束在大气湍流传输中的特性研究

为了研究大气湍流对高斯涡旋光束传递信息的影响,理论分析了经过大气湍流的高斯涡旋光束轨道角动量(OAM)模式的径向平均功率和归一化平均功率分布、固有模式指数、初始光束半径和湍流强度;采用纯相位扰动逼近的有效性,数值模拟高斯涡旋光束在传输中的OAM模式径向平均功率分布的变化。建立传输模型并进行外场激光大气传输实验,对比分析了模拟和实测的OAM归一化平均功率分布,结果表明在弱湍流条件下,OAM模式的径向平均功率随着接收器孔径尺寸的增加而变化,逐渐趋于稳定值。对于一般常用的接收孔径,在强湍流或较小的初始光束半径条件下对OAM模式干扰十分严重。验证了用数值方法模拟OAM在湍流介质中的模式变化过程的可靠性。     

高阶椭圆厄密–高斯光束的轨道角动量研究

从傍轴条件下光束轨道角动量的基本理论出发,根据高阶椭圆厄密–高斯光束的光场分布,运用张量方法,对高阶椭圆厄密-高斯光束轨道角动量的密度分布进行了理论分析,得到了求解该密度分布的计算公式,并在给定参量条件下作了数值模拟.进一步对光束中每个光子携带的平均轨道角动量进行了计算,发现其值随着椭圆厄密-高斯光束阶次的增大而增大,表明高阶椭圆厄密-高斯光束能够比椭圆高斯光束或拉盖尔-高斯光束提供高得多的轨道角动量.     

汉克-贝塞尔光束在海洋湍流信道中的螺旋相位谱分析

携带轨道角动量的汉克-贝塞尔(Hankel-Bessel,HB)光束具有无衍射和自聚焦特性,用来作为信息传输的载体有望增大信息传输容量.基于Rytov近似理论,推导得到了HB涡旋光束经过海洋水平弱湍流信道后的螺旋相位谱的解析表达式,并利用数值仿真方法研究了海洋湍流参数对轨道角动量模式探测概率的影响.结果表明,海洋湍流导致发射轨道角动量模式的探测概率下降,出现模式串扰和螺旋相位谱扩展.海洋湍流对HB涡旋光束的负面影响随着轨道角动量模式数、传输距离、温度方差耗散率的增加而增强,随湍流动能耗散率的增加而减弱.HB涡旋光束受以盐度波动驱动的海洋湍流的负面影响更大.另外,在弱湍流及几十米传输距离条件下,HB涡旋光束的传输性能要差于最佳束腰大小设置的拉盖尔-高斯涡旋光束.这些结果有望为海洋环境水下光通信链路的实现提供一定的参考价值.     

具轨道角动量光束用于光通信编码及解码研究

无衍射光是在自由空间传播过程中一定范围内横向强度分布保持不变的光场,具有方向性好以及传输距离远等特点,某些类型的无衍射光具有轨道角动量.分析了具有轨道角动量光束以及无衍射光在空间中的传输特点,以计算全息图作为反射式相位调制的空间光调制器(SLM)实现光学变换,并通过由锥形透镜构成的模式转换器,将携带信息的拉盖尔-高斯(L-G)光束转换成为具有相同拓扑荷的高阶Bessel无衍射光束,提出了一种通过具有轨道角动量的高阶Bessel无衍射光束来进行空间光信息传输的编码解码方法,在保证激光大气通信的安全保密性的同时,提高了信息传输的密度和准确率.     

涡旋光束在湍流大气中的光束扩展

涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时,其振幅和相位会发生随机起伏,导致在接收平面处的光强起伏及光束扩展等。以低阶拉盖尔-高斯涡旋光束为例,利用激光大气传输四维程序数值模拟了不同条件下的涡旋光束在湍流大气中传输时引起的光束扩展。由模拟结果可知,传输距离越长或湍流越强,涡旋光束在大气中传输时的束宽扩展受湍流的影响越大;涡旋光束的拓扑荷数越高、光束的束腰越小或光波的波长越长,其束宽扩展受大气湍流的影响越小。湍流的内尺度和外尺度也会影响涡旋光束的光束扩展,但影响程度相对较小。另外,通过计算仿真还比较了涡旋光束和普通高斯光束在湍流大气中传输时引起的光束扩展的差异。     

Effects of atmospheric turbulence on the mode weight of the Laguerre-Gaussian Schell beams

Based on the Rytov approximation, we analyze the effects of the turbulence on the crosstalk and spatial spread of orbital angular momentum modes of the Laguerre-Gaussian Schell (LGS) beams. Our results show that the spatial incoherence of light source increases the crosstalk effect of atmospheric turbulence among the orbital angular momentum states and the spatial spread of modes. The mode weight decays with the mode quality factor increasing and the refractive index structure parameter increasing. The quality factor of LGS modes increases with the increasing of refractive index structure parameter in approximate linear form.     

Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner

We use a Laguerre-Gaussian laser mode within an optical tweezers arrangement to demonstrate the transfer of the orbital angular momentum of a laser mode to a trapped particle. The particle is optically confined in three dimensions and can be made to rotate; thus the apparatus is an optical spanner. We show that the spin angular momentum of +/-?per photon associated with circularly polarized light can add to, or subtract from, the orbital angular momentum to give a total angular momentum. The observed cancellation of the spin and orbital angular momentum shows that, as predicted, a Laguerre-Gaussian mode with an azimuthal mode index l=1 has a well-defined orbital angular momentum corresponding to ? per photon.     

Orbital angular momentum crosstalk of single photons propagation in a slant non-Kolmogorov turbulence channel

We analyze the orbital angular momentum (OAM) crosstalk of single photons propagation through low-order atmospheric turbulence. The probability models of the orbital angular momentum crosstalk for single photons propagation in the channel with the non-Kolmogorov turbulence tilt, coma, and astigmatism and defocus aberration have been established. It is found, for α = 11/3, that the turbulent tilt is the dominant aberration which causes the orbital angular momentum crosstalk, the coma is second and the astigmatism is third, but the defocus aberration has no impact on OAM. The results also indicate that the regularities of orbital angular momentum crosstalk caused by the tilt, the coma and the astigmatism are almost the same, respectively. The crosstalk probability of the orbital angular momentum increases as the azimuth mode index p of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam increases, the turbulent strength C_n² enhances, the orbital angular momentum quantum number rises, the diameter of circular sampling aperture D and the channel zenith angle θ increase.     

Double-slit interference with Laguerre-Gaussian beams

The interference of Laguerre-Gaussian beams carrying orbital angular momentum was demonstrated in Young's double-slit geometry. Double-slit interference is shown to be affected by the azimuthal phase dependence of a Laguerre-Gaussian beam. This interference provides new insight into the helical phase structure of the Laguerre-Gaussian beam and has potential applications for measuring the orbital angular momentum of an arbitrary wavefront.     

Effects of atmospheric turbulence on the orbital angular momentum of multi-Gaussian Schell model beams

The effects of multibeams and partially coherent source on the orbital angular momentum transmission of multi-Gaussian Schell model beams in an atmospheric turbulence channel are analyzed. An effective crosstalk probability model of the orbital angular momentum is derived which leads to crosstalk probability function for eigenmodes of different orbital angular momentum states and beamlets. The work shows that the evolution of the effective spatial coherence radius with growing the rms width of the correlation of the partially coherent source and the number of the beamlet in multi-Gaussian model beams. The crosstalk probability of the orbital angular momentum of an effective Gaussian-Schell model beam decreases as increasing of the degree of the spatial coherence of the partially coherent source and the beamlet number of the multi-Gaussian Schell model beams.     

A simple analytical model of the angular momentum transformation in strongly focused light beams

A ray-optics model is proposed to describe the vector beam transformation in a strongly focusing optical system. In contrast to usual approaches based on the focused field distribution near the focal plane, we use the beam pattern formed immediately after the exit aperture. In this cross section, details of the output field distribution are of minor physical interest but proper allowance is made for transformation of the beam polarization state. This enables the spin and orbital angular momentum representations to be obtained, which are valid for any cross section of the transformed beam. Simple analytical results are available for a transversely homogeneous, circularly polarized incident beam confined by a circular aperture. Variations of the spin and orbital angular momenta of the output beam with change of the focusing strength are analyzed. The analytical results are in good qualitative and reasonable quantitative agreement with the results of numerical calculations performed for the Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The model supplies an efficient and physically transparent means for qualitative analysis of the spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion. It can be generalized to incident beams with complex spatial and polarization structure.     

Influence of atmospheric turbulence on states of light carrying orbital angular momentum

We have experimentally studied the degradation of mode purity for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagating through simulated atmospheric turbulence. The turbulence is modeled as a randomly varying phase aberration, which obeys statistics postulated by Kolmogorov turbulence theory. We introduce this simulated turbulence through the use of a phase-only spatial light modulator. Once the turbulence is introduced, the degradation in mode quality results in crosstalk between OAM modes. We study this crosstalk in OAM for 11 modes, showing that turbulence uniformly degrades the purity of all the modes within this range, irrespective of mode number.     

A new method of calculating the orbital angular momentum spectra of Laguerre-Gaussian beams in channels with atmospheric turbulence

Studying orbital angular momentum(OAM) spectra is important for analyzing crosstalk in free-space optical(FSO)communication systems. This work offers a new method of simplifying the expressions for the OAM spectra of Laguerre-Gaussian(LG) beams under both weak/medium and strong atmospheric turbulences. We propose fixing the radius to the extreme point of the intensity distribution, review the expression for the OAM spectrum under weak/medium turbulence,derive the OAM spectrum expression for an LG beam under strong turbulence, and simplify both of them to concise forms.Then, we investigate the accuracy of the simplified expressions through simulations. We find that the simplified expressions permit accurate calculation of the OAM spectrum for large transmitted OAM numbers under any type of turbulence. Finally,we use the simplified expressions to analytically address the broadening of the OAM spectrum caused by atmospheric turbulence. This work should contribute to the concise theoretical derivation of analytical expressions for OAM channel matrices for FSO-OAM communications and the analytical study of the laws governing OAM spectra.