Intracavity spherical aberration for selective generation of single-transverse-mode Laguerre-Gaussian output with order up to 95

Quan Sheng; Aihua Wang; Yuanyuan Ma; Sijia Wang; Meng Wang; Zheng Shi; Junjie Liu; Shijie Fu; Wei Shi; Jianquan Yao; Takashige Omatsu

doi:10.1186/s43074-022-00050-8

PhotoniX, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 4(2022)

Intracavity spherical aberration for selective generation of single-transverse-mode Laguerre-Gaussian output with order up to 95

Quan Sheng^1,2, Aihua Wang^1,2, Yuanyuan Ma^3、*, Sijia Wang⁴, Meng Wang^1,2, Zheng Shi^1,2, Junjie Liu^1,2, Shijie Fu^1,2, Wei Shi^1,2、**, Jianquan Yao^1,2, and Takashige Omatsu³

Author Affiliations

¹School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

³Molecular Chirality Research Center, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan

⁴Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China

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Quan Sheng, Aihua Wang, Yuanyuan Ma, Sijia Wang, Meng Wang, Zheng Shi, Junjie Liu, Shijie Fu, Wei Shi, Jianquan Yao, Takashige Omatsu. Intracavity spherical aberration for selective generation of single-transverse-mode Laguerre-Gaussian output with order up to 95[J]. PhotoniX, 2022, 3(1): 4

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Dec. 8, 2021

Accepted: Feb. 4, 2022

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

The Author Email: Yuanyuan Ma (mayuanyuan612@gmail.com), Wei Shi (shiwei@tju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1186/s43074-022-00050-8

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