Measuring orbital angular momentum of helical beams by spatially variable retardation plates

被引：5
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作者：
Xin, Jingtao [1 ]
Gao, Chunqing [1 ]
Li, Chen [1 ]
Wang, Zheng [1 ]
机构：
[1] Beijing Inst Technol, Sch Optoelect, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
来源：
APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 2012年 / 108卷 / 04期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
LIGHT; STATES;
D O I：
10.1007/s00340-012-5194-3
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
The transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams by a spatially variable retardation plate (SVRP), composed of half wave plates, is investigated. When a LG beam with topological charge of m(0) passes through an mth order SVRP, it was transformed into two orthogonal circularly polarized beams with topological charge m(0) + m and m(0) - m. This property is used to measure topological charges of LG beams. We also propose an efficient method which can be used to check mixed orbital angular momentum states.
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页码：703 / 706
页数：4
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