Detection and demultiplexing of cylindrical vector beams enabled by rotational Doppler effect

Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) detection is of vital significance in kinds of studies such as particle observation, mode-division multiplexing. Here we realize a comprehensive detection of cylindrical vector beams based on the rotational Doppler effect including analysis of topological charges, amplitudes, and phases for mode bases. We construct a mode demultiplexing scheme to obtain the amplitudes, phases in beating signal of collected scattering light by Fourier transformation. The method resolves both absolute values and signs of topological charges ofCVB simultaneously, which can not be simply realized by existing polarization examination techniques. It may be of big potential for related researches since an efficient, quantitative and complete scheme to detect CVBs is verified starting from this work.