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Varying polarization and spin angular momentum flux of radially polarized beams by anisotropic Kerr media

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Light fields with structured polarization distribution interacting with structured media will result in many novel optical effects in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In this work, we report a theoretical investigation of both vectorial self-diffraction behaviors and polarization evolution characteristics of a radially polarized beam induced by anisotropic Kerr nonlinearity. By taking the polarization–orientation dependence of the third-order refractive nonlinearity, we study the far-field vectorial self-diffraction patterns of the radially polarized beam using the vectorial Rayleigh–Sommerfeld formulas. Numerical results reveal that the self-diffraction patterns with a four-fold rotational symmetry exhibit hybrid states of polarization. Moreover, the interaction of radially polarized beams with the anisotropic nonlinear Kerr media leads to the redistribution of the spin angular momentum (SAM) flux in the far-field plane. The presented work opens up new avenues for varying polarization and SAM through anisotropic optical nonlinearity.

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