Abstract
Spin-orbit photonics, involving the interaction between the spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, plays an important role in modern optics. Here, we present the spin-orbit mapping of light in a few-mode fiber that originates from the mode degeneracy lifting ( and ) property. We demonstrate two kinds of spin-orbit mapping phenomena, i.e., mapping from intrinsic SAM to OAM and mapping from polarization direction rotation to field pattern rotation. The demonstrated spin-orbit mapping shows high efficiency, large bandwidth, availability for short pulses, and scalability to high-order OAM states.
- Received 3 June 2021
- Accepted 18 October 2021
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.233901
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