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Generation of the "perfect" optical vortex using a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator
Andrey S Ostrovsky1, Carolina Rickenstorff-Parrao, Víctor Arrizón
1Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla 72000, Mexico. andreyo@fcfm.buap.mx
Optics Letters
|March 5, 2013
Abstract:
We introduce the concept of the perfect optical vortex whose dark hollow radius does not depend on the topological charge. It is shown analytically and experimentally that such a vortex can be approximately generated in the Fourier transforming optical system with a computer-controlled liquid-crystal spatial light modulator.
