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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 5, 745(2020)

Measuring high orbital angular momentum of vortex beams with an improved multipoint interferometer

Qi Zhao^1,2, Miao Dong¹, Yihua Bai¹, and Yuanjie Yang^1、*

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¹School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

²Southwest Institute of Technical Physics, Chengdu 610041, China

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Paper Information

Category: Physical Optics

Received: Dec. 3, 2019

Accepted: Mar. 16, 2020

Published Online: Apr. 26, 2020

The Author Email: Yuanjie Yang (dr.yang2003@uestc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.384925

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