Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally

Polarized Raman spectra of piezoelectric bismuth germanate single crystal were recorded using vortex light in order to verify the predicted symmetry selection rules for Raman scattering of photons with nonzero orbital angular momentum. First, the phonon spectrum is fully characterized by the infrare...

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Main Authors: A. Pylypets, F. Borodavka, I. Rafalovskyi, I. Gregora, E. Buixaderas, P. Bohacek, J. Hlinka
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Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2025-04-01
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0252050
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F. Borodavka
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I. Gregora
E. Buixaderas
P. Bohacek
J. Hlinka
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description Polarized Raman spectra of piezoelectric bismuth germanate single crystal were recorded using vortex light in order to verify the predicted symmetry selection rules for Raman scattering of photons with nonzero orbital angular momentum. First, the phonon spectrum is fully characterized by the infrared reflectivity and Raman scattering with ordinary light. Then, vortex light Raman spectra were compared with the ordinary ones, but no influence of the orbital momentum on the Raman spectra of Bi4Ge3O12 was observed. In particular, we experimentally negate the theoretical prediction that Raman scattering using vortex light can yield frequencies of the silent optic modes of Bi4Ge3O12. We also have not seen evidence for the predicted symmetry-lowering of the Raman scattering tensors of E modes. We propose that the orbital momentum effects are inaccessible to the ordinary Raman spectroscopy experiments because of the tiny magnitudes of typical phonon coherence lengths.
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spelling doaj-art-5b034379acbe404faae290e0fe59bbee2025-08-20T03:48:42ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Photonics2378-09672025-04-01104046106046106-710.1063/5.0252050Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentallyA. Pylypets0F. Borodavka1I. Rafalovskyi2I. Gregora3E. Buixaderas4P. Bohacek5J. Hlinka6FZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 18200 Prague 8, Czech RepublicPolarized Raman spectra of piezoelectric bismuth germanate single crystal were recorded using vortex light in order to verify the predicted symmetry selection rules for Raman scattering of photons with nonzero orbital angular momentum. First, the phonon spectrum is fully characterized by the infrared reflectivity and Raman scattering with ordinary light. Then, vortex light Raman spectra were compared with the ordinary ones, but no influence of the orbital momentum on the Raman spectra of Bi4Ge3O12 was observed. In particular, we experimentally negate the theoretical prediction that Raman scattering using vortex light can yield frequencies of the silent optic modes of Bi4Ge3O12. We also have not seen evidence for the predicted symmetry-lowering of the Raman scattering tensors of E modes. We propose that the orbital momentum effects are inaccessible to the ordinary Raman spectroscopy experiments because of the tiny magnitudes of typical phonon coherence lengths.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0252050
spellingShingle A. Pylypets
F. Borodavka
I. Rafalovskyi
I. Gregora
E. Buixaderas
P. Bohacek
J. Hlinka
Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
APL Photonics
title Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
title_full Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
title_fullStr Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
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title_short Orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
title_sort orbital angular momentum impact on light scattering by phonons tested experimentally
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0252050
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