Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 5, 0187(2016)

Probing the fractional topological charge of a vortex light beam by using dynamic angular double slits

Jing Zhu1, Pei Zhang1,2、*, Dongzhi Fu1, Dongxu Chen1, Ruifeng Liu1, Yingnan Zhou1, Hong Gao1, and Fuli Li1
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  • 1Laboratory of Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices, Shaanxi Province, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian 710049, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei 230026,China
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    Schematic of ADS interference. α is the width of an angular single slit, and ϕ is the angle between dynamic two single slits. q1, q2, and q3 are three points on the mask and oq3 is the angular bisector of ∠q1oq2. P is a point on the far field (with q1P=q2P), which is chosen to observe interferential intensity. θ represents an additional phase on one single slit.
    Sketch of the experimental setup. The inset shows the mask pattern loaded on the SLM.
    I−ϕ curves in polar coordinates when the additional phase θ is zero. The black dots are the experimental data and the green solid curves are fits of the data. M is the theoretical FTC and |Mf| is the modulus of the FTC, which is obtained by fitting the experimental data to the fitting function.
    Contrasted I−ϕ curves between θ=0 (the blue curve) and θ=π/2 (the purple curve) with M=4.3.
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    Jing Zhu, Pei Zhang, Dongzhi Fu, Dongxu Chen, Ruifeng Liu, Yingnan Zhou, Hong Gao, Fuli Li, "Probing the fractional topological charge of a vortex light beam by using dynamic angular double slits," Photonics Res. 4, 0187 (2016)

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    Special Issue: OPTICAL VORTICES AND VECTOR BEAMS

    Received: Jun. 28, 2016

    Accepted: Aug. 6, 2016

    Published Online: Nov. 23, 2016

    The Author Email: Pei Zhang (zhangpei@mail.ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/prj.4.000187

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