Generation of high-quality optical vortex beams in free-space propagation by microfabricated wedge with spatial filtering technique

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Yuan, X C ^a   Ahluwalia, B P S ^a   Chen, H L ^a   Bu, J ^a   Lin, J ^a   Burge, R E ^b   Peng, X ^c   Niu, H B ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DISTORTION (WAVES); LIGHT PROPAGATION; LOW PASS FILTERS;

FREE-SPACE PROPAGATION; MICROFABRICATED WEDGE; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAMS;

LIGHT;

EID: 34547685948     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2760183     Document Type: Article

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