Structured light transformations and orbital angular momentum control in a three-coil optical snake

Abstract

In this paper, we studied transformations of structured light and its angular momentum in a three-coil optical snake – a coil resonator composed of 3 evanescently uniformly coupled coils of a multimode fiber. We have suggested a fully vectorial theory of normal modes of the 3-coil resona-tor, which takes account of the spin-orbit interaction. On the basis of the analytical expressions for such normal modes and their propagation constants we have studied transmission of some types of structured light beams – optical vortices, Hermite-Gaussian-like and Laguerre-Gaussian beams – through such a system. We have shown the possibility of a super-efficient parametric control over the topological charge, orbital and spin angular momenta of the outcoming optical field by this system. We have theoretically demonstrated implementation of logic X and Y Pauli gates for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum on the basis of such a 3-coil resonator.