Polarization oscillating beams constructed by copropagating optical frozen waves

作     者：PENG LI DONGJING Wu YI ZHANG SHENG LIU Yu LI SHUXIA QI JIANLIN ZHAO 

作者机构：MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditionsand Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information TechnologySchool of ScienceNorthwestern Polytechnical UniversityXi'an 710129China Department of Public EducationNorthwestern Polytechnical University Ming De CollegeXi'an 710124China 

出 版 物：《Photonics Research》 (光子学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第6卷第7期

页      面：756-761页

核心收录：

学科分类：0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 070207[理学-光学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(11634010,11774289,61675168,61377035) National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0303800) Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(3102018zy036) 

主　　题：偏振振荡光束 光波 通信技术 理论分析 

摘      要：Polarization oscillating beams, namely, polarization standing waves, commonly formed by a pair of coherent counterpropagating light waves with orthogonal polarizations, oscillate their states of polarization periodically within a wavelength interval, offering conceptual and practical interests in light-matter interactions such as the nonreciprocal magnetoelectric effect, and impressive applications in optical imaging, sensing, and chirality detection. Here, we propose a new class of polarization oscillating beams that longitudinally vary states of polarization with spatial intervals within centimeters via the superposition of two copropagating optical frozen waves with preshaped longitudinal intensity profiles and transverse phase structures. The flexibility and manipulability are demonstrated by creating several polarization oscillating beams with different polarization structures. This work paves a new way to manipulate other waves and may be useful for applications of optical standing waves in optical manipulation, light guiding of atoms, polarization-sensitive sensing, etc.