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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Controlled generation of array beams of higher order orbital angular momentum and study of their frequency-doubling
B S Harshith1,2, G K Samanta3
1Photonic Sciences Laboratory, Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380009, India. ssharshith.bachimanchi@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We report on a simple and compact experimental scheme to generate high-power, ultrafast, higher-order vortex-array beams. Simply by using a dielectric microlens-array (MLA) and a plano-convex lens, we have generated array-beams carrying the spatial property of the input beam. Considering the MLA as a 2D sinusoidal phase-grating, we have numerically calculated the intensity pattern of the array-beams in close agreement with the experimental results. Using vortex beams of order as high as l = 6, we have generated vortex array-beam with individual vortices of orders up to l = 6. We have also theoretically derived the parameters controlling the intensity pattern, size, and the array-pitch and verified experimentally. The single-pass frequency-doubling of vortex-array at 1064 nm in a 1.2 mm long BiBO crystal produced green vortex-array of order, lsh = 12, twice the order of pump beam. Using lenses of different focal lengths, we have observed the vortex-arrays of all orders to follow a focusing dependent conversion similar to the Gaussian beam. The maximum power of the green vortex-array is measured to be 138 mW at a single-pass efficiency as high as ~3.65%. This generic experimental scheme can be used to generate the array beams of desired spatial intensity profile across a wide wavelength range by simply changing the spatial profile of the input beam.
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