Single-shot measurement of the orbital-angular-momentum spectrum of light

Girish Kulkarni; Rishabh Sahu; Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza; Robert W. Boyd; Anand K. Jha

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01215-x

Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Single-shot measurement of the orbital-angular-momentum spectrum of light

Girish Kulkarni,
Rishabh Sahu,
Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza,
Robert W. Boyd,
Anand K. Jha

Affiliations

Girish Kulkarni: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology
Rishabh Sahu: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology
Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Robert W. Boyd: The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Anand K. Jha: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01215-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Efficient measurement of orbital angular momentum spectra presents open challenges. Here, the authors demonstrate a highly-efficient interferometric technique in which the OAM-spectrum information is encoded in the azimuthal intensity profile of the output interferogram.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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