Optical Vortices from Liquid Crystal Droplets

Brasselet, Etienne; Murazawa, Naoki; Misawa, Hiroaki et al.

Physical Review Letters, 2009, 103(10), 103903

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URI	https://hdl.handle.net/2115/39338
タイトル	Optical Vortices from Liquid Crystal Droplets
著者	Brasselet, Etienne ; Murazawa, Naoki ; Misawa, Hiroaki ; Juodkazis, Saulius
著者名 Brasselet, Etienne
著者名 Murazawa, Naoki
e-Rad_Researcher 30253230 著者名 Misawa, Hiroaki
著者名 Juodkazis, Saulius
言語	英語
発行日	2009-09-04
出版者	American Physical Society
収録物名	Physical Review Letters
巻(号)	103(10)
ページ	103903
抄録	We report on the generation of mono- and polychromatic optical phase singularities from micron-sized birefringent droplets. This is done experimentally by using liquid crystal droplets whose three dimensional architecture of the optical axis is controlled within the bulk by surfactant agents. Because of its microscopic size these optical vortex generators are optically trapped and manipulated at will, thus realizing a robust self-aligned micro-optical device for orbital angular momentum conversion. Experimental observations are supported by a simple model of optical spin-orbit coupling in uniaxial dielectrics that emphasizes the prominent role of the transverse optical anisotropy with respect to the beam propagation direction.
資源タイプ	学術雑誌論文
出版タイプ	Version of Record
権利情報	© 2009 The American Physical Society
PISSN	0031-9007
関連情報 (isIdenticalTo)	出版社版DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.103903