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1 January 2021 High-dimensional orbital angular momentum multiplexing nonlinear holography
Xinyuan Fang, Haocheng Yang, Wenzhe Yao, Tianxin Wang, Yong Zhang, Min Gu, Min Xiao
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Abstract

Nonlinear holography has been identified as a vital platform for optical multiplexing holography because of the appearance of new optical frequencies. However, due to nonlinear wave coupling in nonlinear optical processes, the nonlinear harmonic field is coupled with the input field, laying a fundamental barrier to independent control of the interacting fields for holography. We propose and experimentally demonstrate high-dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing nonlinear holography to overcome this problem. By dividing the wavefront of the fundamental wave into different orthogonal OAM channels, multiple OAM and polarization-dependent holographic images in both the fundamental wave and second-harmonic wave have been reconstructed independently in the spatial frequency domain through a type-II second harmonic generation process. Moreover, this method can be easily extended to cascaded χ2 nonlinear optical processes for multiplexing in more wavelength channels, leading to potential applications in multicasting in optical communications, multiwavelength display, multidimensional optical storage, anticounterfeiting, and optical encryption.

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Xinyuan Fang, Haocheng Yang, Wenzhe Yao, Tianxin Wang, Yong Zhang, Min Gu, and Min Xiao "High-dimensional orbital angular momentum multiplexing nonlinear holography," Advanced Photonics 3(1), 015001 (1 January 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.3.1.015001
Received: 3 August 2020; Accepted: 26 November 2020; Published: 1 January 2021
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KEYWORDS
Holography

Holograms

Multiplexing

Nonlinear optics

Second-harmonic generation

Optical design

Channel projecting optics

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