Orbital angular momentum in structured vortex beams: bridging the gap in biomedical imaging and diagnosis

Igor V. Meglinski; Ivan Lopushenko; Anton Sdobnov; Alexander Bykov

doi:10.1117/12.3028525

20 June 2024 Orbital angular momentum in structured vortex beams: bridging the gap in biomedical imaging and diagnosis

Igor V. Meglinski, Ivan Lopushenko, Anton Sdobnov, Alexander Bykov

Proceedings Volume PC13006, Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging III; PC130060S (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3028525
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2024, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

We explore the application of structured vortex laser beams, or shaped light with orbital angular momentum (OAM), in the diagnosis of cell and cell cultures and the quantitative characterization of biological tissues. To examine the conservation of spin and orbital angular momenta during propagation, we constructed a Mach-Zehnder-like interferometer, equipped with a spatial light modulator (SLM), to generate Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams with varying momenta. As the LG beam traverses tissue samples, its interference with a reference plane wave is captured by a camera. Our findings reveal that the OAM of the LG beam is maintained through both normal and cancerous tissue samples, exhibiting a distinct phase shift – or twist of light – which is significantly more sensitive (up to ~1000 times) to changes in the tissue's refractive indices compared to conventional methods. We conclude that leveraging OAM in biomedical diagnosis presents exciting prospects for both groundbreaking biological research and enhanced clinical applications.

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Igor V. Meglinski, Ivan Lopushenko, Anton Sdobnov, and Alexander Bykov "Orbital angular momentum in structured vortex beams: bridging the gap in biomedical imaging and diagnosis", Proc. SPIE PC13006, Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging III, PC130060S (20 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3028525

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Angular momentum

Biomedical optics

Tissues

Biological samples

Biomedical applications

Radio propagation

Spatial light modulators

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