Exotic light: space-time modelling of localized beams and pulses with orbital angular momentum for applications in photonics, optical communications and optical atom guiding

• Grant number: 15/26444-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2016 - October 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Michel Zamboni Rached
• Grantee: Michel Zamboni Rached
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação (FEEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: César Augusto Dartora ; Erasmo Recami ; Hugo Enrique Hernández Figueroa ; Ioannis Besieris ; Kleber Zuza Nobrega ; Leonardo Andre Ambrosio ; Marcos Roberto da Rocha Gesualdi ; Mohammad Mojahedi

Abstract

The so-called nondiffracting waves, also known as localized waves, constitute a solid theoretical and experimental field of research, with applications in several areas, such as medicine, ultrasonic images, optical tweezers, optical atom guiding, optical alignment, remote sensing, free space optical communication, nonlinear optics, quantum mechanics, etc..This research project focuses on the theoretical and experimental studies of the space-time modeling of diffraction-dispersion-attenuation resistant beams and pulses carrying orbital angular momentum, aiming applications in photonics, optical communications and optical atom guiding.The work will be developed over two years in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Unicamp and there will be collaboration with some important national and international research centers, with which the applicant has strong collaboration since several years, namely: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto (Canada); Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA); Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at USP São Carlos; Laboratory of Photonics at UFABC; Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Paraná; Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal Institute of Maranhão.This proposal is located on the frontier of knowledge of this important research field and will be detailed in the project. (AU)

Scientific publications

(15)

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

VARELA MENDONCA, JOEL ALCIDIO; RACHED, MICHEL ZAMBONI; AMBROSIO, LEONARDO ANDRE; DA SILVA SANTOS, CARLOS HENRIQUE. Arrays of spatially structured non-diffracting optical beams. APPLIED OPTICS, v. 59, n. 2, p. 346-353, JAN 10 2020. (15/26444-8, 17/10445-0)

ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; RECAMI, ERASMO; VIEIRA, TARCIO A.; GESUALDI, MARCOS R. R.; NOBRE-PEREIRA, JESSYCA. Structured Light by Linking Diffraction-Resistant Spatially Shaped Beams. PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, v. 10, n. 3, SEP 12 2018. (15/26444-8, 16/19131-6)

AMBROSIO, LEONARDO ANDRE; RACHED, MICHEL ZAMBONI; GOUESBET, GERARD. Discrete vector frozen waves in generalized Lorenz-Mie theory: linear, azimuthal, and radial polarizations. APPLIED OPTICS, v. 57, n. 12, p. 3293-3300, APR 20 2018. (17/10445-0, 15/26444-8)

AMBROSIO, LEONARDO ANDRE; RACHED, MICHEL ZAMBONI; GOUESBET, GERARD. Zeroth-order continuous vector frozen waves for light scattering: exact multiple expansion in the generalized Lorenz-Mie theory. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, v. 36, n. 1, p. 81-89, JAN 1 2019. (15/26444-8, 17/10445-0)

PACHON, E. G. P.; ZAMBONI-RACHED, M.; DORRAH, A. H.; MOJAHEDI, MO; GESUALDI, M. R. R.; CABRERA, G. G.. Architecting new diffraction-resistant light structures and their possible applications in atom guidance. Optics Express, v. 24, n. 22, p. 25403-25408, OCT 31 2016. (15/26444-8)

CORATO-ZANARELLA, MATEUS; CORATO-ZANARELLA, HENRIQUE; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL. Nonparaxial Cartesian and azimuthally symmetric waves with concentrated wavevector and frequency spectra. Journal of Optics, v. 19, n. 11, NOV 2017. (15/26444-8)

LOURENCO-VITTORINO, GRAZIELLE DE A.; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL. Modeling the longitudinal intensity pattern of diffraction resistant beams in stratified media. APPLIED OPTICS, v. 57, n. 20, p. 5643-5651, JUL 10 2018. (15/26444-8)

DORRAH, AHMED H.; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; MOJAHEDI, MO. Experimental demonstration of tunable refractometer based on orbital angular momentum of longitudinally structured light. LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS, v. 7, JUL 25 2018. (15/26444-8)

ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; AMBROSIO, LEONARDO ANDRE; DORRAH, AHMED H.; MOJAHEDI, MO. Structuring light under different polarization states within micrometer domains: exact analysis from the Maxwell equations. Optics Express, v. 25, n. 9, p. 10051-10056, MAY 1 2017. (15/26444-8, 16/11174-8)

CORATO-ZANARELLA, MATEUS; DORRAH, AHMED H.; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; MOJAHEDI, MO. Arbitrary Control of Polarization and Intensity Profiles of Diffraction-Attenuation-Resistant Beams along the Propagation Direction. PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, v. 9, n. 2, FEB 14 2018. (15/26444-8)

ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; BESIERIS, IOANNIS M.. Modeling of space-time focusing of localized nondiffracting pulses. Physical Review A, v. 94, n. 4, OCT 12 2016. (15/26444-8)

CORATO-ZANARELLA, MATEUS; CORATO-ZANARELLA, HENRIQUE; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL. Shaping the longitudinal intensity pattern of Cartesian beams in lossless and lossy media. Journal of Optics, v. 19, n. 9, SEP 2017. (15/26444-8)

QUAGLIO, JOAO; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL. Transmission of spatial-shaped diffraction-resistant beams through stratified dielectric media: finite energy formulation. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION, v. 35, n. 12, p. 2079-2086, DEC 1 2018. (15/26444-8)

SUAREZ, RAFAEL A. B.; AMBROSIO, LEONARDO A.; NEVES, ANTONIO A. R.; ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL; GESUALDI, MARCOS R. R.. Experimental optical trapping with frozen waves. OPTICS LETTERS, v. 45, n. 9, p. 2514-2517, MAY 1 2020. (16/19131-6, 15/26444-8, 17/10445-0)

ZAMBONI-RACHED, MICHEL. Simple and analytical method for controlling the trajectory and branching of optical beams. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, v. 38, n. 2, p. 448-455, FEB 1 2021. (15/26444-8)