On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection
Photon angular momentum (AM) has been widely studied due to its unique properties. The accurate detection of photon AM is very important in its wide applications. Though various on-chip AM detectors based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been proposed, most of them can only realize relative...
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| author | Houquan Liu Zhenghao Xie Jiankang Xu Libo Yuan |
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| description | Photon angular momentum (AM) has been widely studied due to its unique properties. The accurate detection of photon AM is very important in its wide applications. Though various on-chip AM detectors based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been proposed, most of them can only realize relative measurement. For example, most photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) detectors measure the high order OAM via measuring the relative interval between the intensity spots of the SPPs excited by the target order OAM beam and the reference order (usually 0th order) OAM beam. In this paper, we propose a simple on-chip photon AM detector. It can realize absolute measurement of photon OAM via angle detection, whose measurement result does not depend on the measurement of any reference OAM beam. At the same time, it can also recognize photon spin angular momentum (SAM). The proposed detector provides a new way for absolute measurement of photon AM, which may have some potential applications in the field of integrated photonic device. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d991adb00734826943464b207930ddd2023-11-23T23:31:04ZengMDPI AGNanomaterials2079-49912022-03-0112584710.3390/nano12050847On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle DetectionHouquan Liu0Zhenghao Xie1Jiankang Xu2Libo Yuan3Photonics Research Center, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaPhotonics Research Center, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaPhotonics Research Center, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaPhotonics Research Center, School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, ChinaPhoton angular momentum (AM) has been widely studied due to its unique properties. The accurate detection of photon AM is very important in its wide applications. Though various on-chip AM detectors based on surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been proposed, most of them can only realize relative measurement. For example, most photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) detectors measure the high order OAM via measuring the relative interval between the intensity spots of the SPPs excited by the target order OAM beam and the reference order (usually 0th order) OAM beam. In this paper, we propose a simple on-chip photon AM detector. It can realize absolute measurement of photon OAM via angle detection, whose measurement result does not depend on the measurement of any reference OAM beam. At the same time, it can also recognize photon spin angular momentum (SAM). The proposed detector provides a new way for absolute measurement of photon AM, which may have some potential applications in the field of integrated photonic device.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/5/847photon angular momentumsurface plasmon polaritonson-chip photon device |
| spellingShingle | Houquan Liu Zhenghao Xie Jiankang Xu Libo Yuan On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection Nanomaterials photon angular momentum surface plasmon polaritons on-chip photon device |
| title | On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection |
| title_full | On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection |
| title_fullStr | On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection |
| title_full_unstemmed | On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection |
| title_short | On-Chip Photon Angular Momentum Absolute Measurement Based on Angle Detection |
| title_sort | on chip photon angular momentum absolute measurement based on angle detection |
| topic | photon angular momentum surface plasmon polaritons on-chip photon device |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/5/847 |
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