2017/05/31 by Mateus Corato-Zanarella, Ahmed H. Dorrah, Michel Zamboni-Rached +1 · 30 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Intensity (physics) #Light beam #Light intensity #Lossless compression #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Optical fiber #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Polarization (electrochemistry) #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.9.024013
published in Physical Review Applied 9(2) (American Physical Society) · 11 pages, 8 figures
openalex created_date 2017/05/12 · arxiv created 2017/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2018/02/14 · arxiv updated 2018/02/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Controlling the state of polarization (SoP) of light could find use in many fields, such as materials processing, polarimetry, microscopy, and optical communication, but applications typically involve interaction with absorbing media, which limits a light beam's range. Current methods for longitudinal control of SoP cannot overcome medium losses, and are either limited or not systematic in terms of SoP variations. The authors present a fully analytic, systematic methodology to engineer both the SoP and intensity of nondiffracting, attenuation-resistant beams in both lossless and absorbing media. This method is envisioned as an important advance for applications of structured light.