Abstract
We explore the underlying spin-orbit coupling (SOC) mechanism for the interactions between complex structured light fields in a four-level tripod electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system. Because one coupling field in the system is a Bessel beam, the susceptibility of the EIT medium can be modulated quasiperiodically in the radial dimension. The paraxial propagation and evolution of a rotating spinor image as the probe field in the medium can be described by a Pauli-like equation with the SOC term. We calculate the spatial distributions of the diffracted patterns of the image in the near field and clearly show the tunable SOC-induced radial splitting of the oppositely polarized pseudospin states. Our scheme may be useful for all-optical processing of spatial multimode signals in coherent media.
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