- 1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- 2Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Nonlinear multiplexing holography emerges as a powerful tool to produce structured lights at new wavelengths. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography in an angular noncritical phase-matching configuration. In experiment, various types of structured light beams, such as vortex beam, Airy beam and Airy vortex beam, are simultaneously output at second-harmonic waves along different paths. Because of the large angular acceptance bandwidth of noncritical phase-matching, one can achieve high conversion efficiency of angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography. Our method has potentially applications in high-capacity holographic storage and security encryption.
Introduction
Structured light has attracted widespread attentions because of its spatial distributions of amplitude, phase, and polarization [1]. For example, vortex beam has a unique spiral phase
Holography has many important applications in numerous areas [20–26], including data storage [20], optical encryption [21], holographic interferometry [22], microscopy [23] and dynamic holography [24–26]. Because of its powerful wavefront shaping capability, holography has recently been used in nonlinear optics to enable the generations of various structured light beams at new optical frequencies [27–34]. By utilizing the orthogonal physical dimensions of light, nonlinear holography is capable to reconstruct multiple wavefront information from a single hologram, i.e., nonlinear multiplexing holography [28, 35]. Generally, only one wavefront channel can be output at a time when the corresponding phase matching condition is satisfied in nonlinear holography. It is still difficult for nonlinear holography to output various types of structured light beams efficiently, controllably, and simultaneously.
In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography in an angular noncritical phase-matching (A-NCPM) configuration. By encoding proper holograms into the fundamental waves, multiple second-harmonic (SH) beams with the desired wavefronts can be simultaneously output along different paths. High conversion efficiency is guaranteed by the large angular acceptance bandwidth of A-NCPM. In experiment, we use the angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography to generate vortex beam, Airy beam and Airy vortex beam at SH waves for example.
Methods and Experiment
We consider two fundamental fields, i.e.,
Here,
Figure 1A shows a collinear type-I BPM configuration, in which two horizontally-polarized fundamental fields propagate collinearly along the z axis. Three vertically-polarized SH fields [
FIGURE 1. Comparison of collinear and noncollinear BPM configurations. We load the holograms of a plane wave and a l = -4 vortex phase respectively on SLM1 and SLM2 for example. (A) shows the collinear BPM process, in which the generated SH fields are mixed together. (B) shows the noncollinear case by introducing an additional phase of exp(iΔk) (or exp(−iΔk)) on SLM1 (or SLM2). Clearly, the SH fields can be well separated. (C) shows the angle dependence of the normalized SHG efficiency. Here, we use 15-mm-long barium borate (BBO) crystal and lithium boric oxide (LBO) crystal for the calculations of BPM and A-NCPM processes, respectively. The acceptance angular bandwidth is 0.006° in a traditional BPM process, while it is significantly increased is 3.741° in the A-NCPM configuration. Here, we define the angular bandwidth by using the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the curves.
This noncollinear scheme can well solve the problem of SH field overlap. However, the phase mismatch becomes
Figure 2 shows the experimental setup used in this work. In the optical alignment, the fundamental wave is derived from a 1,064 nm laser with a pulse repetition frequency of 20 kHz and a pulse width of 100 ns A polarizing beam splitter (PBS) is used to select a horizontally-polarized light. The fundamental wave is then shaped using a 4-f system consisting of two lenses (L1 and L2 with f1 = 200 mm and f2 = 75 mm) and a pinhole. After passing through a 50:50 beam splitter (BS), the fundamental wave is equally divided into two beams. These two beams are separately modulated by using two spatial light modulators (SLM1, BNS, P1920-600-1300-HDMI; and SLM2, Holoeye, Pluto-2-NIR-011) to carry the designed holograms. Because SLM1 used in the experiment only works for vertically-polarized light, we add a half-wave plate (HWP) between BS and SLM1. After modulation, they are combined via the 50:50 BS and then shaped using another 4-f system consisting of lenses L3 and L4 (with f3 = 500 mm and f4 = 50 mm). Then, the fundamental beams are incident into an LBO crystal (type-Ⅰ, θ = 0, φ = 90°, 4 × 4 × 15 mm3). A filter is placed after the LBO crystal to filter out the fundamental wave, and a lens L5 (f5 = 200 mm) is then used to perform the Fourier transform of the generated SH fields. Finally, the SH beams are recorded using a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera (Newport, LBP2-HR-VIS2). The SH vortex beams is tested by using a cylindrical lens [38].
FIGURE 2. Schematic of the experiment setup. PBS, polarization beam spitter; L, lens; P, pinhole; BS, beam splitter; HWP, half-wave plate; M, mirror; LBO, lithium boric oxide crystal; CCD, charge-coupled device; CL, cylindrical lens.
In experiment, we first demonstrate the generations of multiple SH vortex beams. First, vortex holographic phase holograms with l = −4 and l = 4 are loaded onto SLM1 and SLM2, respectively. Here, the hologram is designed according to binary computer-generated-hologram (CGH) theory [39]. Besides, a blazed grating phase is superimposed on each hologram to introduce the additional spatial phase
FIGURE 3. By using two fundamental waves of l = -4 and l = 4, three SH beams of l = -8, l = 0, and l = 8 (from left to right) are simultaneously generated. (A,B) show the experimental and simulated results, respectively. (C) shows the transformed patterns after a cylindrical lens, from which the OAM number can be measured by counting the dark strips.
FIGURE 4. By using two fundamental waves of l = -4 and l = 1, three SH beams of l = -8, l = -3, and l = 2 (from left to right) are produced at the same time. (A,B) show the experimental and simulated results, respectively. (C) shows the transformed patterns after a cylindrical lens for OAM measurements.
Next, we produce various types of spatial light beams simultaneously. In this experiment, we load the holograms for the generations of a 2D Airy beam and a l = 1 vortex beam on SLM1 and SLM2, respectively. Notably, if a fundamental Airy beam is directly frequency-doubled with itself in the nonlinear crystal, one achieves the product of two Airy beams rather than the SH Airy beam [42]. In the experiment, we use the Fourier transform (FT) of the Airy beam as the hologram on SLM1, which is imaged into the nonlinear crystal and performs SHG. Then, the generated SH field is converted to an SH Airy beam after FT through a lens. Under such experimental configuration, three different types of SH beams, i.e., SH vortex beam, SH Airy beam, and SH Airy vortex beam, are produced along different paths. The experimental results are shown in Figure 5A, which agree well with the simulated results as shown in Figure 5B. Notably, the SH intensities in Figures 3–5 are not the same because the conversion efficiencies of SHGs involving various structured light beams are different.
FIGURE 5. The experimental (A) and simulated (B) generations of Airy beam, Airy vortex beam and vortex beam (from left to right) at SH waves.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we propose an angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography to produce multiple structured light beams simultaneously under an A-NCPM configuration. In experiment, we demonstrate a three-channel output of various SH beams, which can be further extended to more output channels within the angular acceptance bandwidth of A-NCPM. The angle-multiplexing nonlinear holography can also be applied in nonlinear photonic crystals and nonlinear metasurfaces [43–47]. Our work provides a feasible solution to enhance the capacity of nonlinear holography for multi-wavelength display, multi-dimensional optical storage, optical encryption, all-optical diffractive neuron networks [48], and optical communications.
Data Availability Statement
The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
Author Contributions
WY, CZ, TW, and PC performed the experiments under the guidance of YZ and MX, WY, and YZ wrote the manuscript with contributions from all
Funding
National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFA0303703), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (91950206 and 11874213), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (021314380191 and 021314380105).
Conflict of Interest
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Keywords: nonlinear holography, noncritical phase matching (NCPM), multiplexing, beam shaping, second harmonic generation
Citation: Yao W, Zhou C, Wang T, Chen P, Xiao M and Zhang Y (2021) Angle-Multiplexing Nonlinear Holography for Controllable Generations of Second-Harmonic Structured Light Beams. Front. Phys. 9:751860. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2021.751860
Received: 02 August 2021; Accepted: 11 October 2021;
Published: 26 October 2021.
Edited by:
Bao-Sen Shi, University of Science and Technology of China, ChinaReviewed by:
Zhi-Yuan Zhou, University of Science and Technology of China, ChinaYoussef Elkouari, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco
Lixiang Chen, Xiamen University, China
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