Generation of tunable high-order Laguerre–Gaussian petal-like modes from a mid-infrared optical vortex parametric oscillator

Yuxia Zhou; Xining Yang; Jianqiang Ye; Yuanyuan Ma; Ying Wan; Jianxiang Wen; Taximaiti Yusufu

doi:10.1117/1.APN.3.3.036013

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 036013(2024)

Generation of tunable high-order Laguerre–Gaussian petal-like modes from a mid-infrared optical vortex parametric oscillator

Yuxia Zhou1...2, Xining Yang2, Jianqiang Ye2, Yuanyuan Ma3,*, Ying Wan4, Jianxiang Wen5 and Taximaiti Yusufu2,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Xinjiang Normal University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Urumqi, China

²Xinjiang Normal University, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Xinjiang Key Laboratory for Luminescence Minerals and Optical Functional Materials, Urumqi, China

³Chiba University, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba, Japan

⁴Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Optoelectronic Detection of Atmosphere and Ocean, Nanjing, China

⁵Shanghai University, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Key Lab of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai, China

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