The creation and annihilation of optical vortices using cascade conical diffraction
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D. O'Dwyer, C. F. Phelan, Y. Rakovich, P. R. Easthan, J. G. Lunney and J. F. Donegan, The creation and annihilation of optical vortices using cascade conical diffraction, Optics Express, 19, 3, 2011, 2580 - 2588Download Item:
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Internal conical diffraction produces a superposition of orthogonally polarised zero- and first-order Bessel like beams from an incident circularly polarised Gaussian beam. For right-circularly polarised light, the first-order beam has an optical vortex of charge ?1. Upon propagation of the first-order beam through a second biaxial crystal, a process which is termed cascade conical refraction, the generated beam is a superposition of orthogonally polarised fields of charge 0 and ?1 or 0 and ?2. This spin to orbital angular momentum conversion provides a new method for the generation and annihilation of optical vortices in an all-optical arrangement that is solely dependent on the incident polarisation and vortex handedness.
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Optics, Birefringence, Crystal optics, DiffractionSubject (TCD):
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