Generation of vector beams in terms of the partial light modulator of a twisted nematic liquid crystal

Xi Si-Xing; Wang Xiao-Lei; Huang Shuai; Chang Sheng-Jiang; Lin Lie

doi:10.7498/aps.64.114204

Abstract

We propose a vector beam generation method based on the spatial light modulator composed of twisted nematic liquid crystal. According to the relation between the rotation angle and the applied voltage on the spatial light modulator, a common optical system for generating a variety of vector beams is designed in experiments. By using this common optical system, a variety of vector beams in axisymmetric phases as well as the complex vector beams are generated, and their polarization characteristics are observed and measured experimentally, where a tight focusing field is obtained, and this may be applied in optical tweezers and lithography. In addition, the device structure is simple and easy to operate, its efficiency of producing vector beam is very high and the laser spectral characteristics are not changed in the proposed generation of vector beams. Therefore, the method we proposed can find important potential applications in strong laser of vector beams interacting with matter, and laser acceleration, etc.

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Authors and contacts

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Institute of Modern Optics, Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, NanKai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61275133).

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[1]	Liu T, Tan J, Liu J 2013 Opt. Commun. 294 21
[2]	Song W T, Lin F, Fang Z Y, Zhu X 2010 Acta Phys. Sin. 59 6921 (in Chinese) [宋文涛, 林峰, 方哲宇, 朱星 2010 物理学报 59 6921]
[3]	Donato M G, Vasi S, Sayed R, Jones P H, Bonaccorso F, Ferrari A C, Gucciardi P G, Maragò O M 2012 Opt. Lett. 37 3381
[4]	Wang W T, Hu B, Wang M W 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 060601 (in Chinese) [王文亭, 胡冰, 王明伟 2013 物理学报 62 060601]
[5]	Zhan Q W 2009 Adv. Opt. Photonics. 1 1
[6]	Xu F, Ford J E, Fainman Y 1995 Appl. Opt. 34 256
[7]	Ren H W, Lin Y H, Wu S T 2006 Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 051114
[8]	Desyatnikov A, Fadeyeva T A, Shvedov V G, Izdebskaya Y V, Volyar A V, Brasselet E, Neshev D N, Krolikowski W, Kivshar Y S 2010 Opt. Express. 18 10848
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[19]	Hao X, Kuang C F, Wang T T, Liu X 2010 Opt. Lett. 35 3928
[20]	Rao L, Pu J, Chen Z, Pu Y 2009 Opt. Laser Technol. 41 241

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