Orbital angular momentum vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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作者：
Li, Huanlu [1 ,2 ]
Phillips, David B. [3 ,4 ]
Wang, Xuyang [1 ]
Ho, Ying-Lung Daniel [1 ]
Chen, Lifeng [1 ]
Zhou, Xiaoqi [3 ]
Zhu, Jiangbo [5 ,6 ]
Yu, Siyuan [1 ,5 ,6 ]
Cai, Xinlun [5 ,6 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Bristol, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Bristol BS8 1TR, Avon, England
[2] Univ Glasgow, Sch Engn, Glasgow G12 8LP, Lanark, Scotland
[3] Univ Bristol, HH Wills Phys Lab, Bristol BS8 1TL, Avon, England
[4] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[5] Sun Yat Sen Univ, State Key Lab Optoelect Mat & Technol, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[6] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Phys & Engn, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China
来源：
OPTICA | 2015年 / 2卷 / 06期
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
LIGHT; GENERATION; BEAM; INTENSITY; STATES; MODES;
D O I：
10.1364/OPTICA.2.000547
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
Harnessing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is an appealing approach to developing photonic technologies for future applications in optical communications and high-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. An outstanding challenge to the widespread uptake of the OAM resource is its efficient generation. In this work we design a new device that can directly emit an OAM-carrying light beam from a low-cost semiconductor laser. By fabricating micro-scale spiral phase plates within the aperture of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), the linearly polarized Gaussian beam emitted by the VCSEL is converted into a beam carrying specific OAM modes and their superposition states, with high efficiency and high beam quality. This new approach to OAM generation may be particularly useful in the field of OAM-based optical and quantum communications, especially for short-reach data interconnects and QKD. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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页码：547 / 552
页数：6
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