Orbital angular momentum microlaser
Abstract
Structured light, in the form of helical wavefronts, provides an additional degree of freedom to encode information for optical communications. Creating light beams with the desired amount of optical angular momentum, or twist, has usually been achieved with bulk optic devices. Miao et al. demonstrate a possible route for an integrated optics approach in which a twisted-light source with a controlled amount of optical angular momentum is generated internally to the designed device structure. These microlasers could find application in telecommunication and information technologies to increase the rate of information transmission.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 29, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.aaf8533
Entities
People
- Jingbo Sun
- Liang Feng
- Natalia M. Litchinitser
- Pei Miao
- Stefano Longhi
- Wiktor Walasik
- Zhifeng Zhang
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- National Science Foundation
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- United States Department of Energy
- University at Buffalo