DOE OSTI · 3016969
Interference dislocations adjacent to emission spot
Abstract
We studied interference dislocations (forks) adjacent to an emission spot in an interference pattern. We observed the adjacent interference dislocations in emission of excitons in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide and in emission of spatially indirect excitons, also known as interlayer excitons, in a van der Waals heterostructure. Our simulations show that the adjacent interference dislocations appear due to the moiré effect in combined interference patterns produced by constituent parts of the emission spot. In contrast to interference dislocations in coherent states, such as interference dislocations due to quantized vortices in condensates, the appearance of adjacent interference dislocations does not require coherence between the parts of the emission spot, indicating that interference dislocations can be observed in a classical system. Finally, we show that the interference dislocations in classical systems can appear in interference images for various spatially modulated emission patterns.
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Leonard, J. R. [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)], Fowler-Gerace, L. H. [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)], Zhou, Zhiwen [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)], Szwed, E. A. [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)], Choksy, D. J. [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)], Butov, L. V. [Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)]. 2026-01-13. Interference dislocations adjacent to emission spot. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.583487
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