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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Mode purity comparison of optical vortices generated by a segmented deformable mirror and a static multilevel phase
Marco Scipioni1, Robert K Tyson, Jaime Viegas
1Department of Physics and Optical Science, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA. cipion@uncc.edu
Abstract:
We present a mode purity comparison between optical vortices (OVs) generated by a static multilevel phase plate with 16 or 32 phase steps and a vortex generated with a segmented deformable mirror with 37 actuators. Computer simulations show the intensity and phase of the vortices generated with the two methods. The deformable mirror, by being reconfigurable, shows better mode purity for high charge OVs, while the static phase plate mode efficiency declines due to the fixed number phase quantization.
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