Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum

Z Ma, S Ramachandran - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
With growing interest in the spatial dimension of light, multimode fibers, which support
eigenmodes with unique spatial and polarization attributes, have experienced resurgent …

Optical vortices in waveguides with discrete and continuous rotational symmetry

A Pryamikov, L Hadzievski, M Fedoruk… - Journal of the …, 2021 - jeos.edpsciences.org
Coherent vortex structures are fascinating physical objects that are widespread in nature:
from large scale atmospheric phenomena, such as tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of …

Spatiotemporal helicon wavepackets

P Béjot, B Kibler - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Propagation-invariant or nondiffracting optical beams have received considerable attention
during the last two decades. However, the pulsed nature of light waves and the structured …

Nonlinear four-wave mixing with enhanced diversity and selectivity via spin and orbital angular momentum conservation

X Liu, EN Christensen, K Rottwitt, S Ramachandran - APL photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Light that can carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) has found a variety of applications in
super-resolution microscopy, optical communications, and laser machining, bringing up the …

Flower‐Shaped Optical Vortex Array

H Fan, H Zhang, C Cai, M Tang, H Li… - Annalen der …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the generation of an optical vortex array dubbed the flower‐shaped optical vortex
array (FOVA) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using a single optical path …

Theory of four wave mixing-based parametric amplification of spin-orbit modes

HF Elder, SK Dacha, TE Murphy, P Sprangle - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We study the generation of spin-orbit (SO) modes via four-wave mixing (FWM)-based
parametric amplification. SO modes carry quantized total angular momentum (TAM), and we …

Anomalous ring-connected optical vortex array

X Li, H Zhang - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this study, an anomalous ring-connected optical vortex array (ARC-OVA) via the
superposition of two grafted optical vortices (GOVs) with different topological charges (TCs) …

Raman effects in quantum frequency conversion using Bragg scattering

MLH Korsgaard, JG Koefoed, K Rottwitt - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We present a quantum-mechanical model that describes fiber-based frequency conversion
by four-wave-mixing Bragg scattering in the presence of Raman interactions. In the case of …

Raman gain control in optical fibers with orbital-angular-momentum-induced chirality of light

X Liu, Z Ma, A Antikainen, S Ramachandran - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Stimulated Raman scattering is a particularly robust nonlinearity, occurring in virtually every
material because its spectral linewidth and associated frequency shift do not typically …

[HTML][HTML] Design of elliptical photonic crystal fiber (E-PCF) for the transmission of 116 OAM channels across the S, C, L and U bands

J Lataoui, A Rjeb, N Jaba, H Fathallah, M Machhout - Results in Optics, 2023 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes over photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have shown
great capability in unleashing the available data rates in optical communication systems. In …