Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters

Michael J. Strain; Xinlun Cai; Jianwei Wang; Jiangbo Zhu; David B. Phillips; Lifeng Chen; Martin Lopez-Garcia; Jeremy L. O'Brien; Mark G. Thompson; Marc Sorel; Siyuan Yu

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Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters

Michael J. Strain, Xinlun Cai, Jianwei Wang, Jiangbo Zhu, David B. Phillips, Lifeng Chen, Martin Lopez-Garcia, Jeremy L. O'Brien, Mark G. Thompson, Marc Sorel, Siyuan Yu

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The ability to rapidly switch between orbital angular momentum modes of light has important implications for future classical and quantum systems. In general, orbital angular momentum beams are generated using free-space bulk optical components where the fastest reconfiguration of such systems is around a millisecond using spatial light modulators. In this work, an extremely compact optical vortex emitter is demonstrated with the ability to actively tune between different orbital angular momentum modes. The emitter is tuned using a single electrically contacted thermo-optical control, maintaining device simplicity and micron scale footprint. On-off keying and orbital angular momentum mode switching are achieved at rates of 10 μs and 20 μs respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	4856
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	5
Early online date	17 Sep 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5856
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 17 Sep 2014

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optical physics
applied physics
nanotechnology

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Fast electrical switching of orbital angular momentum modes using ultra-compact integrated vortex emitters. / Strain, Michael J.; Cai, Xinlun; Wang, Jianwei; Zhu, Jiangbo; Phillips, David B.; Chen, Lifeng; Lopez-Garcia, Martin; O'Brien, Jeremy L.; Thompson, Mark G.; Sorel, Marc; Yu, Siyuan.

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