Optical vortices with axisymmetric polarization structure

Andrey Leonidovich Sokolov

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.1.014109

31 January 2017 Optical vortices with axisymmetric polarization structure

Andrey Leonidovich Sokolov

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 1, 014109 (January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.1.014109

Abstract

Consideration is given to the basic properties and characteristics of optical vortices (OV) featuring a helical phase structure combined with axisymmetric polarization structure. Correlation between polarization-symmetric beams and OV is analyzed. Based on the Jones formalized matrices, it is shown how axisymmetric polarization structure is generated when an optical vortex passes through spiral optical elements: polarizer and phase plate. It is shown that the polarization-optical system consisting of two cube-corner reflectors with a special phase-correction coating to ensure a certain phase shift between electric vector components is equivalent to a spiral two-order rotator, which provides an optical vortex from a circular-polarization wave.

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Andrey Leonidovich Sokolov "Optical vortices with axisymmetric polarization structure," Optical Engineering 56(1), 014109 (31 January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.1.014109

Received: 27 October 2016; Accepted: 10 January 2017; Published: 31 January 2017

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