2013
DOI: 10.1364/josab.30.000615
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Multiple-beam interference in a spiral phase plate

Abstract: Optical transmission through a spiral phase plate is analyzed by treating the device as a Fabry-Perot etalon with an azimuthally varying thickness. The transmitted beam is calculated to contain a coherent superposition of optical vortices with different winding numbers. This yields an intensity profile with a periodic modulation as a function of azimuthal angle where the orientation rotates as a function of the laser frequency. These effects are quantified experimentally and theoretically.

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“…Spiralphased plates have also been fabricated to generate a coherent superposition of optical vortices with different winding numbers and surface reflection coefficients [25,26]. In addition, q-plates have been fabricated from liquid-crystal slabs to convert a left circularly polarized beam into a helically phased beam with right circular polarization, or vice versa [27].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Spiralphased plates have also been fabricated to generate a coherent superposition of optical vortices with different winding numbers and surface reflection coefficients [25,26]. In addition, q-plates have been fabricated from liquid-crystal slabs to convert a left circularly polarized beam into a helically phased beam with right circular polarization, or vice versa [27].…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relationship between the length of the cavity and the transmission peaks is predicted by the multi-beams interferometry [18,19] 2nd k λ =…”
Section: Sensor Principlementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Spiral phase plates are widely employed as mode selectors, in active cavities [2], as etalons [3], and in free space [4,5]; in the rotation of microparticles [6] and nanomechanical elements [7,8], in microscopy [9], in astronomy [10], and in tests of quantum mechanics [11].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%