Optical knots in engineered turbid media

Danilo Gomes Pires; Jiannan Gao; Jane Peabody; Nitish Chandra; Natalia M. Litchinitser

doi:10.1117/12.2596430

3 August 2021 Optical knots in engineered turbid media

Danilo Gomes Pires, Jiannan Gao, Jane Peabody, Nitish Chandra, Natalia M. Litchinitser

Proceedings Volume 11795, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2021; 1179522 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596430
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this talk we theoretically and experimentally investigate an interesting family of null solutions to Helmholtz equation in 3D free space - optical vortices, or zero lines of complex amplitude in a propagating light field, that are knotted or linked in a certain way. We design all-dielectric optical metasurfaces – nanostructures enabling unprecedented control over the amplitude, polarization and phase of optical fields, for generation of optical knots, and study their stability and evolution in engineered colloidal suspensions with saturable Kerr-like nonlinearity. These studies are further generalized to characterization of knot evolution in turbid linear and nonlinear media, such as clouds, fog, biological media, and undersea environments. Knotted electromagnetic fields may find applications in three-dimensional optical manipulations or could be considered as candidates for new information carriers in classical and quantum communication systems.

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Danilo Gomes Pires, Jiannan Gao, Jane Peabody, Nitish Chandra, and Natalia M. Litchinitser "Optical knots in engineered turbid media", Proc. SPIE 11795, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2021, 1179522 (3 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596430

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