Up-conversion detection of mid-infrared light carrying orbital angular momentum

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac6eda

Abstract Frequency up-conversion is an effective method of mid-infrared (MIR) detection by converting long-wavelength photons to the visible domain, where efficient detectors are readily available. Here, we generate MIR light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) from a difference frequency generation process and perform up-conversion on it via sum frequency conversion in a bulk quasi-phase-matching crystal. The maximum quantum conversion efficiencies from MIR to visible are 34.0%, 10.4%, and 3.5% for light with topological charges of 0, 1, and 2, respectively, achieved by utilizing an optimized strong pump light. We also verify the OAM conservation with a specially designed interferometer, and the results agree well with the numerical simulations. Our study opens up the possibilities for generating, manipulating, and detecting MIR light that carries OAM, and will have great potential for optical communications and remote sensing in the MIR regime.

Keywords: nonlinear optics frequency up-conversion mid-infrared detection

Received: 21 February 2022
Revised: 09 May 2022
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PACS:	42.65.-k	(Nonlinear optics)
	52.70.Kz	(Optical (ultraviolet, visible, infrared) measurements)
	85.60.Gz	(Photodetectors (including infrared and CCD detectors))
	42.65.Ky	(Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 92065101 and 11934013) and Anhui Initiative In Quantum Information Technologies (Grant No. AHY020200).

Corresponding Authors: Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi
E-mail: zyzhouphy@ustc.edu.cn;drshi@ustc.edu.cn

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Zheng Ge(葛正), Chen Yang(杨琛), Yin-Hai Li(李银海), Yan Li(李岩), Shi-Kai Liu(刘世凯), Su-Jian Niu(牛素俭), Zhi-Yuan Zhou(周志远), and Bao-Sen Shi(史保森) Up-conversion detection of mid-infrared light carrying orbital angular momentum 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 104210

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