Shaping Optical Vortex Beams with Topological Charge

structured light
Frontiers in Optics 2013, FM3F.6 (2013)
Authors

Anderson M. Amaral

Edilson L. Falcão-Filho

Cid B. de Araújo

Published

January 1, 2013

Doi

10.1364/FIO.2013.FM3F.6

Anderson M. Amaral, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, and Cid B. de Araújo

DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2013.FM3F.6

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Abstract

We show that it is possible to shape the spatial intensity profile of vortex beams by spatially arranging topological charges on a phase mask. In our experiments, we generated vortex beams shaped as straight lines, corners and triangles.