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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Collinear superposition of multiple helical beams generated by a single azimuthally modulated phase-only element
1Photonics Research Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798.
Abstract:
We propose a highly efficient approach to generating multihelix beams that contain more than one helical mode, and the power distribution over helical modes is adjustable. A multihelix beam embedded with three collinear helical modes is demonstrated by use of a spatial light modulator.
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