Fiber structure to convert a Gaussian beam to higherorder optical orbital angular momentum modes

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3294-3296

  Yan, Yan ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Yang, Jeng Yuan ^a   Fazal, Irfan M ^a   Ahmed, Nisar ^a   Willner, Alan E ^a   Dolinar, Samuel J ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZED; CIRCULAR SYMMETRY; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FIBER STRUCTURES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GAUSSIAN MODES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84865457879     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003294     Document Type: Article

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