To unify travelling- and standing-wave ray-wave structured light by coherent wave packets

Zhaoyang Wang; Yijie Shen; Zhensong Wan; Qiang Liu; Xing Fu

doi:10.1117/12.2596426

1 August 2021 To unify travelling- and standing-wave ray-wave structured light by coherent wave packets

Zhaoyang Wang, Yijie Shen, Zhensong Wan, Qiang Liu, Xing Fu

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Proceedings Volume 11818, Laser Beam Shaping XXI; 118180L (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596426
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Structured light with diverse degrees of freedom (DoFs) has recently attracted wide attention. Especially, the ray-wave beams that could be described by both rays and wave packet, can open multiple DoFs by the ray- wave duality. Here a generalized ray-wave beam family is proposed to unify the spatial mode evolution of the azimuthally traveling-wave (TW) and standing-wave (SW) structured light, by introducing a reconfigureable ray-split/fusion structure. We derive an elegant closed-form expression by utilizing frequency-degenerate Ince- Gaussian eigenmodes to construct a new ray-wave beams family to precisely parameterize the ray-split/fusion process, pushing structured light control in higher dimensions. We also experimentally generate these modes by dynamic control of a digital hologram system, revealing their potential applications in optical manipulation and communication.

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Zhaoyang Wang, Yijie Shen, Zhensong Wan, Qiang Liu, and Xing Fu "To unify travelling- and standing-wave ray-wave structured light by coherent wave packets", Proc. SPIE 11818, Laser Beam Shaping XXI, 118180L (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596426

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