Reflective optical vortex generators with ultrabroadband self-phase compensation

Han Cao; Guangyao Wang; Lichao Zhang; Qinggui Tan; Wei Duan; Wei Hu

doi:10.1117/1.APN.2.2.026009

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 2, Issue 2, 026009(2023)

Reflective optical vortex generators with ultrabroadband self-phase compensation Article Video

Han Cao^1,2, Guangyao Wang¹, Lichao Zhang², Qinggui Tan³, Wei Duan^4、*, and Wei Hu^1、*

¹Nanjing University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Nanjing, China

²Nanhui Institute of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Nanjing, China

³China Academy of Space Technology, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space Microwave, Xi’an, China

⁴Beihang University, School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beijing, China

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Dec. 23, 2022

Accepted: Feb. 13, 2023

Published Online: Mar. 15, 2023

The Author Email: Wei Duan (wduan@buaa.edu.cn), Wei Hu (huwei@nju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.2.2.026009

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