期刊
NANOPHOTONICS
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 209-224出版社
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0404
关键词
higher-order modes; multimode fibers; orbital angular momentum; Pancharatnam-Berry phase; vector beams; propagation stability
资金
- Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship [N00014-19-1-2632]
- Brookhaven National Labs [354281]
- Office of Naval Research MURI program [N00014-20-1-2450]
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1610190]
Multimode fibers have attracted renewed attention due to the spatial diversity they offer, with circularly polarized orbital angular momentum modes being identified as the most stable eigenbasis for light propagation in suitably designed fibers. By manipulating light's path memory effects, a controllable means of tailoring light's phase is demonstrated, which has implications for using higher-order modes in optical fiber applications.
With growing interest in the spatial dimension of light, multimode fibers, which support eigenmodes with unique spatial and polarization attributes, have experienced resurgent attention. Exploiting this spatial diversity often requires robust modes during propagation, which, in realistic fibers, experience perturbations such as bends and path redirections. By isolating the effects of different perturbations an optical fiber experiences, we study the fundamental characteristics that distinguish the propagation stability of different spatial modes. Fiber perturbations can be cast in terms of the angular momentum they impart on light. Hence, the angular momentum content of eigenmodes (including their polarization states) plays a crucial role in how different modes are affected by fiber perturbations. We show that, accounting for common fiber-deployment conditions, including the more subtle effect of light's path memory arising from geometric Pancharatnam-Berry phases, circularly polarized orbital angular momentum modes are the most stable eigenbasis for light propagation in suitably designed fibers. Aided by this stability, we show a controllable, wavelength-agnostic means of tailoring light's phase due to its geometric phase arising from path memory effects. We expect that these findings will help inform the optimal modal basis to use in the variety of applications that envisage using higher-order modes of optical fibers.
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