Optical orbital angular momentum transformation based on nonlinear fork-shaped gratings

Yilin Li; Tianxiang Xu; Ruwei Zhao; Shan Liu; Yan Sheng

doi:10.3788/COL202523.071901

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 7, 071901(2025)

Optical orbital angular momentum transformation based on nonlinear fork-shaped gratings

Yilin Li1... Tianxiang Xu1, Ruwei Zhao1, Shan Liu2, and Yan Sheng12,* |Show fewer author(s)

¹Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices, Research Institute of Advanced Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Functional Materials and Devices and Engineering Research Center for Advanced Infrared Photoelectric Materials and Devices of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

²Department of Quantum Science and Technology, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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