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The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry
Published on: August 12, 2013
Generation of doubly charged vortex beam by concentrated loading of glass disks along their diameter
Ihor Skab1, Yuriy Vasylkiv, Oleh Krupych
1Institute of Physical Optics, Lviv, Ukraine.
Abstract:
We show that a system of glass disks compressed along their diameters enables one to induce a doubly charged vortex beam in the emergent light when the incident light is circularly polarized. Using such a disk system, one can control the efficiency of conversion of the spin angular momentum to the orbital angular momentum by a loading force. The consideration presented here can be extended for the case of crystalline materials with high optical damage thresholds in order to induce high-power vortex beams.
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