Robust interferometer for the routing of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum
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Robust interferometer for the routing of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum
We have developed an interferometer requiring only minimal angular alignment for the routing of beams carrying orbital angular momentum. The Mach–Zehnder interferometer contains a Dove prism in each arm where each has a mirror plane around which the transverse phase profile is inverted. One consequence of the inversions is that the interferometer needs no alignment. Instead the interferometer d...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Journal of Physics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/9/093014