Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 012302(2015)

Single-slit diffraction of the arbitrary vector beams

Sixing Xi, Xiaolei Wang, Qiang Wang, Shuai Huang, Shengjiang Chang, and Lie Lin
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  • Institute of Modern Optics, Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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    We present the single-slit diffraction of the arbitrary vector fields with different parameters m, n, and f0 theoretically and experimentally. The single slit covers the polarization singularity in the center and therefore the influence of the polarization singularity on the diffraction fringes is analyzed. The experimental results which agree well with the simulation results show that the total intensity of the diffraction field is related only to the topological charge m, but the polarization distribution of the diffraction field is related to all the parameters m, n, and f0. Therefore, the diffraction patterns allow to determine all the parameters of the arbitrary vector fields.

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    Sixing Xi, Xiaolei Wang, Qiang Wang, Shuai Huang, Shengjiang Chang, Lie Lin, "Single-slit diffraction of the arbitrary vector beams," Chin. Opt. Lett. 13, 012302 (2015)

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    Category: Optical devices

    Received: Jul. 30, 2014

    Accepted: Nov. 14, 2014

    Published Online: Jan. 6, 2015

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    DOI:10.3788/col201513.012302

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