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    • Structured Light Analysis
    • Quantum Optics

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    • Modal decomposition of structured light is crucial for understanding its properties.
    • Conventional methods rely on linear projective systems, which can be limiting.
    • Analyzing light at inconvenient wavelengths poses a significant challenge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a nonlinear optical approach for modal decomposition of structured light.
    • To enable the analysis of unknown beams at infrared wavelengths using visible light.
    • To demonstrate a single-step nonlinear method for full field reconstruction.

    Main Methods:

    • Spatially overlapping an unknown infrared beam with a visible beam encoding a modal set.
    • Utilizing a nonlinear version of off-axis digital holography for single-step decomposition.
    • Verification using structured light examples like orbital angular momentum and Hermite-Gaussian beams.

    Main Results:

    • Successful modal decomposition of arbitrary structured light fields using nonlinear optics.
    • Demonstration of unraveling infrared beams by interaction with a visible light modal set.
    • Achieved full field reconstruction of unknown beams via nonlinear off-axis digital holography.

    Conclusions:

    • Nonlinear optics provides a powerful alternative for modal decomposition, especially at inconvenient wavelengths.
    • This approach extends the applications of nonlinear optics beyond frequency conversion to modal detection.
    • The developed methods offer significant benefits for applications requiring structured light analysis.