Theoretical analysis and experimental verification on optical rotational Doppler effect

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Abstract
We present a theoretical model to sufficiently investigate the optical rotational Doppler effect based on modal expansion method. We find that the frequency shift content is only determined by the surface of spinning object and the reduced Doppler shift is linear to the difference of mode index between input and output orbital angular momentum (OAM) light, and linear to the rotating speed of spinning object as well. An experiment is carried out to verify the theoretical model. We explicitly suggest that the spatial spiral phase distribution of spinning object determines the frequency content. The theoretical model makes us better understand the physical processes of rotational Doppler effect, and thus has many related application fields, such as detection of rotating bodies, imaging of surface and measurement of OAM light.
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  • Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2014CFA004)
  • Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of the People's Republic of China (FANEDD) (201139)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (11174096, 11374008, 61475052)
  • Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province
  • Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET) (NCET-11-0168)

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