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Off-axis retrieval of orbital angular momentum of light stored in cold atoms
We report on the storage of orbital angu- lar momentum (OAM) of light of a
Laguerre-Gaussian mode in an ensemble of cold cesium atoms and its re- trieval
along an axis different from the incident light beam. We employed a
time-delayed four-wave mixing configuration to demonstrate that at small angle
(2o), after storage, the retrieved beam carries the same OAM as the one encoded
in the input beam. A calculation based on mode decomposition of the retrieved
beam over the Laguerre-Gaussian basis is in agreement with the experimental
observations done at small angle values. However, the calculation shows that
the OAM retrieving would get lost at larger angles, reducing the fidelity of
such storing-retrieving process. In addition, we have also observed that by
applying an external magnetic field to the atomic ensemble the retrieved OAM
presents Larmor oscillations, demonstrating the possibility of its manipulation
and off-axis retrieval.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Spectroscopic observation of the rotational Doppler effect
We report on the first spectroscopic observation of the rotational Doppler
shift associated with light beams carrying orbital angular momentum. The effect
is evidenced as the broadening of a Hanle/EIT coherence resonance on Rb vapor
when the two incident Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams have opposite topological
charges. The observations closely agree with theoretical predictions.Comment: Submited to Physical Review Lette
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