Controllable transmission of vector beams in dichroic medium

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/28/1/014205

Abstract

Vector beams with spatially varying polarization distribution in the wavefront plane have received increasing attention in recent years. The manipulation of vector beams both in intensity and polarization distributions is highly desired and under development. In this work, we study the transmission property of vector beams through warm rubidium vapor and realize controllable transmission of vector beams based on atomic dichroism. By utilizing the linearly polarized beam and vector beams as the pump and probe beams in a pump-probe configuration, a spatially-dependent dichroism can be obtained, which leads to spatially varied absorption of the probe beam. The controllable intensity distribution of the probe beam, as a two-petal pattern, can rotate with the variation of the pump beam's polarization states. We experimentally demonstrate the mechanism of dichroism with linear polarization light and provide an explanation based on the optical pumping effect. Alternatively, the varying trend of the probe beam's intensity is also interpreted by utilizing the Jones matrix. Our results are thus beneficial for providing potential applications in optical manipulation in atomic ensembles.

Keywords: quantum optics polarization dichroism

Received: 04 May 2018
Revised: 06 September 2018
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PACS:	42.50.-p	(Quantum optics)
	42.25.Ja	(Polarization)
	33.55.+b	(Optical activity and dichroism)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774286, 11374238, 11534008, 11604258, and 11574247), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M592771), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. xjj2018213).

Corresponding Authors: Hong Gao
E-mail: honggao@xjtu.edu.cn

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Yun-Ke Li(李云珂), Jin-Wen Wang(王金文), Xin Yang(杨欣), Yun Chen(陈云), Xi-Yuan Chen(陈熙远), Ming-Tao Cao(曹明涛), Dong Wei(卫栋), Hong Gao(高宏), Fu-Li Li(李福利) Controllable transmission of vector beams in dichroic medium 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 014205

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