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Knotting fractional-order knots with the polarization state of light

Nature photonics, 2019-08, Vol.13 (8), p.569-574 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Knotting fractional-order knots with the polarization state of light
  • Author: Pisanty, Emilio ; Machado, Gerard J. ; Vicuña-Hernández, Verónica ; Picón, Antonio ; Celi, Alessio ; Torres, Juan P. ; Lewenstein, Maciej
  • Subjects: Angular momentum ; Beams (radiation) ; Circular polarization ; Dependence ; Electromagnetic fields ; Física ; Integers ; Knots ; Optical polarization ; Polarització (Llum) ; Polarization ; Polarization (Light) ; Singularities ; Subgroups ; Symmetry ; Tensors ; Topology ; Toruses ; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
  • Is Part Of: Nature photonics, 2019-08, Vol.13 (8), p.569-574
  • Description: The fundamental polarization singularities of monochromatic light are normally associated with invariance under coordinated rotations: symmetry operations that rotate the spatial dependence of an electromagnetic field by an angle θ and its polarization by a multiple γθ of that angle. These symmetries are generated by mixed angular momenta of the form Jγ = L + γS, and they generally induce Möbius-strip topologies, with the coordination parameter γ restricted to integer and half-integer values. In this work we construct beams of light that are invariant under coordinated rotations for arbitrary rational γ, by exploiting the higher internal symmetry of ‘bicircular’ superpositions of counter-rotating circularly polarized beams at different frequencies. We show that these beams have the topology of a torus knot, which reflects the subgroup generated by the torus-knot angular momentum Jγ, and we characterize the resulting optical polarization singularity using third- and higher-order field moment tensors, which we experimentally observe using nonlinear polarization tomography. The polarization structure around polarization singularities can exhibit arbitrary fractional rotations when tracing around the singularity, due to an underlying topology of a torus knot imprinted by the chosen ratio of frequencies contained in the light beam.
  • Publisher: London: Nature Publishing Group
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1749-4885
    EISSN: 1749-4893
    DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0450-2
  • Source: Recercat
    ProQuest Central
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