Three tailorable optical vortices generated by a modified fractal spiral forked plate
- 18 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Optics
- Vol. 23 (4), 045603
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/abe7c6
Abstract
A modified fractal spiral forked plate (MFSFP) is proposed to generate three tailorable coplanar optical vortices at multiple focal planes, which consist of two off-axis vortices and one axial vortex. The axial vortex and one low-intensity off-axis vortex can have equal intensity by designing an appropriate spiral-like filter. In addition, the MFSFP has the self-similar axial and off-axis optical vortices. Moreover, the tailorable topological charges of two off-axis vortices are related to those of the fractal spiral zone plate and forked grating, and the topological charge of the axial vortex is equal to that of the fractal spiral zone plate. In the experiments, based on the interferometric measurement method, the differences between fingers of forked fingers are used to prove the above topological charge transformation rule. The method of constructing the MFSFP is illustrated. The MFSFP is applicable to rotate particles at the multiple positions of the different planes simultaneously, increase optical communication capacities, and produce multiple images simultaneously.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11904032)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11674401)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University, China (2020zzts043)
- Open Research Fund of CAS Key Laboratory of Spectral Imaging Technology (LSIT201904W)
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (2019JJ40358)
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