Photon spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion via an electrically tunable q-plate

By B. Piccirillo, V. D’Ambrosio, S. Slussarenko, Lorenzo Marrucci, E. Santamato. 2010

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Exploiting electro-optic effects in liquid crystals, we achieved real-time control of the retardation of liquid-crystal-based q-plates through an externally applied voltage. Electro-optic q-plates can be operated as electrically driven converters of photon spin into orbital angular momentum, enabling a variation of the orbital angular momentum probabilities of the output photons over a time scale of milliseconds.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Lorenzo Marrucci
2. Fabio Sciarrino
3. Ebrahim Karimi
4. B. Piccirillo
5. S. Slussarenko
6. E. Nagali
7. E. Santamato

In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. Ebrahim Karimi
2. B. Piccirillo

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• Spin-to-orbital conversion of the angular momentum of light and its classical and quantum applications (2011, background): “So far, a thermal approach exploiting the strong dependence of the LC birefringence on temperature [38] and an electric one, exploiting the electric-field induced reorientation of the LC molecular alignment [67] have been demonstrated.”