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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 2166-2173Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.002166
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- National Fundamental Research Program of China [2011CBA00200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11174271, 61275115, 61435011, 61525504]
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Efficiently discriminating beams carrying different orbital angular momentum (OAM) is of fundamental importance for various applications including high capacity optical communication and quantum information processing. We design and experimentally verify a distinguished method for effectively splitting different OAM-carried beams by introducing Dove prisms in a ring cavity. Because of rotational symmetry broken of two OAM-carried beams with opposite topological charges, their transmission spectra will split. When mode and impedance matches between the cavity and one OAM-carried beam are achieved, this beam will transmit through the cavity and other beam will be reflected, both beams keep their spatial shapes. In this case, the cavity acts like a polarized beam splitter. Besides, the transmitting beam can be selected at your will, the splitting efficiency can reach unity if the cavity is lossless and it completely matches the beam. Furthermore, beams carry multi-OAMs can also be split by cascading ring cavities. (C)2016 Optical Society of America
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