Rotational Doppler effect in left-handed materials

Details Rotational Doppler effect in left-handed materials Rotational Doppler effect in left-handed materials

2008-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/0805.2543v1

Physical Review A 78, 033805 (2008)

Physics

Optics

6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.033805

We explain the rotational Doppler effect associated with light beams carrying with orbital angular momentum in left-handed materials (LHMs). We demonstrate that the rotational Doppler effect in LHMs is unreversed, which is significantly different from the linear Doppler effect. The physics underlying this intriguing effect is the combined contributions of negative phase velocity and inverse screw of wave-front. In the normal dispersion region, the rotational Doppler effect induces a upstream energy flow but a downstream momentum flow. In the anomalous dispersion region, however, the rotational Doppler effect produces a downstream energy flow but a upstream momentum flow. We theoretically predict that the rotational Doppler effect can induce a transfer of angular momentum of the LHM to orbital angular momentum of the beam.

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