Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Spatial tomography of light resolved in time, spectrum, and polarisation

  • Martin Plöschner,
  • Marcos Maestre Morote,
  • Daniel Stephen Dahl,
  • Mickael Mounaix,
  • Greta Light,
  • Aleksandar D. Rakić,
  • Joel Carpenter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31814-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The work harnesses principles of spatial state tomography to fully characterise an optical beam in space, time, spectrum, and polarisation. Analysis of the output of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser illustrates the technique’s capabilities.