Identifying orbital angular momentum of light in quantum wells
Abstract
Generation and detection of structured light have recently been the subject of intense study, aiming to realize high-capacity optical storage and continuous-variable quantum technologies. Here, we present a scheme to extract the orbital angular momentum content of Laguerre-Gaussian light beams in a double- four level system of GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells. Arising from a quantum interference term, absorption of a non-vortex probe field depends upon the azimuthal phase of vortex fields so that both magnitude and sign of the azimuthal index/indices can be mapped into the absorption profile.
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