Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering

We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that high-purity Laguerre-Gaussian beams can be efficiently obtained from Gaussian vortex beams using a typical 4F spatial filtering optical system, in which spatial filtering does not affect the spiral phase and the energy loss is very small. In the F...

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Main Authors: Wangjun Pan, Lu Xu, Jinfeng Li, Xiaoyan Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8693508/
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spelling doaj-70b2b8150afb43bdabc9addc3869ec3a2021-03-29T17:53:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111311010.1109/JPHOT.2019.29116218693508Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial FilteringWangjun Pan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7285-3104Lu Xu1Jinfeng Li2Xiaoyan Liang3State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaState Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaWe theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that high-purity Laguerre-Gaussian beams can be efficiently obtained from Gaussian vortex beams using a typical 4F spatial filtering optical system, in which spatial filtering does not affect the spiral phase and the energy loss is very small. In the Fourier frequency domain, aperture filtering specifically removes the high-frequency component corresponding to the central singularity region. In the spatial domain, aperture filtering corresponds to a convolution, which can smooth the central singularity region. This approach is simple and effective and has practical implementations in the generation and amplification of relativistic vortex beams.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8693508/Laguerre–Gaussian beamsspatial filteringvortex beams
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author Wangjun Pan
Lu Xu
Jinfeng Li
Xiaoyan Liang
spellingShingle Wangjun Pan
Lu Xu
Jinfeng Li
Xiaoyan Liang
Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
IEEE Photonics Journal
Laguerre–Gaussian beams
spatial filtering
vortex beams
author_facet Wangjun Pan
Lu Xu
Jinfeng Li
Xiaoyan Liang
author_sort Wangjun Pan
title Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
title_short Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
title_full Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
title_fullStr Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
title_full_unstemmed Generation of High-Purity Laguerre–Gaussian Beams by Spatial Filtering
title_sort generation of high-purity laguerre–gaussian beams by spatial filtering
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Photonics Journal
issn 1943-0655
publishDate 2019-01-01
description We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that high-purity Laguerre-Gaussian beams can be efficiently obtained from Gaussian vortex beams using a typical 4F spatial filtering optical system, in which spatial filtering does not affect the spiral phase and the energy loss is very small. In the Fourier frequency domain, aperture filtering specifically removes the high-frequency component corresponding to the central singularity region. In the spatial domain, aperture filtering corresponds to a convolution, which can smooth the central singularity region. This approach is simple and effective and has practical implementations in the generation and amplification of relativistic vortex beams.
topic Laguerre–Gaussian beams
spatial filtering
vortex beams
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8693508/
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