Optical vortex-antivortex crystallization in free space
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| author | Lin, Haolin Liao, Yixuan Liu, Guohua Ren, Jianbin Li, Zhen Chen, Zhenqiang Malomed, Boris A. Fu, Shenhe |
| author_facet | Lin, Haolin Liao, Yixuan Liu, Guohua Ren, Jianbin Li, Zhen Chen, Zhenqiang Malomed, Boris A. Fu, Shenhe |
| contents | Stable vortex lattices are basic dynamical patterns which have been demonstrated in physical systems including superconductor physics, Bose-Einstein condensates, hydrodynamics and optics. Vortex-antivortex (VAV) ensembles can be produced, self-organizing into the respective polar lattices. However, these structures are in general highly unstable due to the strong VAV attraction. Here, we demonstrate that multiple optical VAV clusters nested in the propagating coherent field can crystallize into patterns which preserve their lattice structures over distance up to several Rayleigh lengths. To explain this phenomenon, we present a model for effective interactions between the vortices and antivortices at different lattice sites. The observed VAV crystallization is a consequence of the globally balanced VAV couplings. As the crystallization does not require the presence of nonlinearities and appears in free space, it may find applications to high-capacity optical communications and multiparticle manipulations. Our findings suggest possibilities for constructing VAV complexes through the orbit-orbit couplings, which differs from the extensively studied spin-orbit couplings. |
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| spellingShingle | Optical vortex-antivortex crystallization in free space Lin, Haolin Liao, Yixuan Liu, Guohua Ren, Jianbin Li, Zhen Chen, Zhenqiang Malomed, Boris A. Fu, Shenhe Optics Stable vortex lattices are basic dynamical patterns which have been demonstrated in physical systems including superconductor physics, Bose-Einstein condensates, hydrodynamics and optics. Vortex-antivortex (VAV) ensembles can be produced, self-organizing into the respective polar lattices. However, these structures are in general highly unstable due to the strong VAV attraction. Here, we demonstrate that multiple optical VAV clusters nested in the propagating coherent field can crystallize into patterns which preserve their lattice structures over distance up to several Rayleigh lengths. To explain this phenomenon, we present a model for effective interactions between the vortices and antivortices at different lattice sites. The observed VAV crystallization is a consequence of the globally balanced VAV couplings. As the crystallization does not require the presence of nonlinearities and appears in free space, it may find applications to high-capacity optical communications and multiparticle manipulations. Our findings suggest possibilities for constructing VAV complexes through the orbit-orbit couplings, which differs from the extensively studied spin-orbit couplings. |
| title | Optical vortex-antivortex crystallization in free space |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02940 |