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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Radial mode dependence of optical beam shifts
N Hermosa1, Andrea Aiello, J P Woerdman
1Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. hermosa@physics.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract:
It is known that orbital angular momentum (OAM) couples the Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts. Here, we present the first study of these shifts when the OAM-endowed LG(ℓ,p) beams have higher-order radial mode index (p>0). We show theoretically and experimentally that the angular shifts are enhanced by p while the positional shifts are not.
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