| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Authors |
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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Topological Charge of Superposition: Conservation of Topological Charge |
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1 | (40) |
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1.1 Topological Charge and Asymptotic Phase Invariants of Vortex Laser Beams |
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1 | (8) |
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1.1.1 Orbital Angular Momentum and Topological Charge |
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2 | (1) |
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1.1.2 Propagation of a Light Field in Free Space and Conservation of Its Orbital Angular Momentum |
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2 | (1) |
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1.1.3 Conservation of the Topological Charge |
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3 | (2) |
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1.1.4 Asymptotic Phase Invariants of Vortex Laser Beams |
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5 | (1) |
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1.1.5 Numerical Simulation |
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6 | (3) |
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1.2 Topological Charge of a Linear Combination of Optical Vortices: Topological Competition |
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9 | (16) |
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1.2.1 TC of an OV after Passing an Amplitude Mask |
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10 | (3) |
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1.2.2 TC of an Off-Axis Optical Vortex |
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13 | (2) |
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1.2.3 TC of an Optical Vortex with Multi-Center Optical Singularities |
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15 | (1) |
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1.2.4 TC of an On-Axis Combination of Optical Vortices |
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16 | (1) |
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1.2.5 TC of the Sum of Two Optical Vortices |
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16 | (3) |
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1.2.6 Topological Charge in an Arbitrary Plane |
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19 | (2) |
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1.2.7 Topological Charge for an Optical Vortex with an Initial Fractional Charge |
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21 | (2) |
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1.2.8 Topological Charge of an Elliptic Optical Vortex Embedded in a Gaussian Beam |
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23 | (2) |
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1.3 Topological Charge of Asymmetric Optical Vortices |
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25 | (16) |
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1.3.1 TC of an Asymmetric LG Beam |
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26 | (3) |
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1.3.2 TC of an Asymmetric BG Beam |
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29 | (2) |
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1.3.3 TC of an Asymmetric Kummer Beam |
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31 | (1) |
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1.3.4 TC of an OV Composed of Two HG Modes |
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32 | (2) |
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1.3.5 TC of a Vortex HG Beam |
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34 | (1) |
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1.3.6 Numerical Simulation |
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35 | (6) |
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Chapter 2 Evolution of an Optical Vortex with an Initial Fractional Topological Charge |
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41 | (46) |
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2.1 Change in TC During Propagation in Free Space and Stability to Phase Noise |
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41 | (15) |
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2.1.1 Theoretical Background |
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42 | (4) |
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2.1.2 Numerical Simulation |
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46 | (5) |
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51 | (2) |
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2.1.4 Stability of the Topological Charge to Phase Noise |
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53 | (3) |
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2.2 Nonparaxial Modeling of the Evolution of an Optical Vortex with an Initial Fractional TC |
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56 | (11) |
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2.2.1 Topological Charge of an Initial Fractional-Charge Vortex in the Near Field |
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57 | (3) |
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2.2.2 Topological Charge of an Original Fractional-Charge Vortex in the Fresnel Zone |
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60 | (2) |
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2.2.3 Topological Charge of an Initial Fractional-Charge Vortex in the Far Field |
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62 | (5) |
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2.3 Orbital Angular Momentum and Topological Charge of a Multi-Vortex Gaussian Beam |
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67 | (11) |
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2.3.1 Complex Amplitude of a Multi-Vortex Gaussian Beam |
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67 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Orbital Angular Momentum and the Topological Charge of the Multi-Vortex Gaussian Beam |
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68 | (3) |
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2.3.3 Asymptotic Phase Invariants of the Multi-Vortex Gaussian Beam |
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71 | (1) |
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2.3.4 Multi-Singularity Spiral Phase Plate |
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71 | (1) |
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2.3.5 Stability of Shape, Orbital Angular Momentum, Topological charge, and Asymptotic Phase Invariants of the Multi-Vortex Gaussian Beam to Random Phase Distortions |
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72 | (3) |
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2.3.6 Numerical Simulation of Asymptotic Phase Invariants |
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75 | (3) |
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2.4 Influence of Optical "Dipoles" on the Topological Charge of a Field with a Fractional Initial Charge |
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78 | (9) |
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2.4.1 Formulation of the Problem |
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79 | (2) |
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2.4.2 Topological Charge of the Beam in the Far Field, Initial TC 3 & lt; & mu; & lt; 4 |
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81 | (1) |
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2.4.3 Topological Charge of the Beam in the Far Field when TC Is 2 & lt; & mu; & lt; 3 |
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82 | (5) |
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Chapter 3 Topological Charge Superposition of only Two Laguerre-Gaussian or Bessel--Gaussian Beams with Different Parameters |
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87 | (58) |
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3.1 Optical Phase Singularities "Going To" Infinity with a Higher-Than-Light Speed |
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87 | (13) |
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3.1.1 Theoretical Background |
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88 | (2) |
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3.1.2 Movement of Phase Singularities in the Propagating Beam |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (8) |
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3.2 Conservation of the Half-Integer Topological Charge on Propagation of a Superposition of Two Bessel-Gaussian Beams |
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100 | (12) |
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3.2.1 Topological Charge of a Coaxial Superposition of Bessel-Gaussian Beams |
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101 | (5) |
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3.2.2 Numerical Simulation |
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106 | (6) |
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3.3 Topological Charge of Two Parallel Laguerre--Gaussian Beams |
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112 | (19) |
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3.3.1 Structurally Stable Superposition of Off-Axis LG Beams |
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113 | (3) |
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3.3.2 Superposition of Two On-Axis LG Beams |
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116 | (1) |
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3.3.3 Superposition of Two Off-Axis LG Beams |
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117 | (2) |
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3.3.4 Numerical Modeling and Experiment |
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119 | (1) |
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Numerical modeling of structurally stable superposition of off-axis LG beams |
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119 | (1) |
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Numerical modeling of a superposition of two off-axis LG beams |
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120 | (6) |
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Determining the topological charge by interferograms |
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126 | (2) |
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Comparison of analytical, simulated, and --- experimentally recorded results |
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128 | (3) |
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3.4 Topological Charge of Polychromatic Optical Vortices |
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131 | (14) |
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3.4.1 Topological Charge of a Two-Color Superposition of Optical Vortices |
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132 | (2) |
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3.4.2 Topological Charge of a White Optical Vortex |
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134 | (2) |
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3.4.3 Numerical Simulation |
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136 | (1) |
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Numerical simulation of two-color vortices |
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136 | (3) |
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Numerical simulation of a three-color vortex |
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139 | (3) |
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Numerical simulation of three-color vortex with different permutations of light rings colors |
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142 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Optical Vortex Beams with an Infinite Topological Charge |
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145 | (46) |
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4.1 Propagation-Invariant Laser Beams with an Array of Phase Singularities |
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145 | (22) |
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4.1.1 Form-Invariant Gaussian Beams |
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146 | (1) |
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4.1.2 Gaussian Beam with a Vortex-Argument Cosine Function |
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147 | (1) |
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147 | (6) |
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153 | (3) |
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4.1.3 Gaussian Beam with a Vortex-Argument Bessel Function |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (1) |
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4.1.4 Gaussian Beam with the Cosine Function of the Squared Vortex-Argument |
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159 | (1) |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (2) |
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4.1.5 Higher-Order Cosine Vortex Optical Beam |
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163 | (1) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (2) |
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4.2 Orbital Angular Momentum of Generalized Cosine Gaussian Beams with an Infinite Number of Screw Dislocations |
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167 | (8) |
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4.2.1 Complex Amplitude, Space Propagation, and Intensity Distribution of the Generalized Cosine Gaussian Beams with an Infinite Number of Screw Dislocations |
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168 | (2) |
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4.2.2 OAM Spectrum, Energy, and Normalized-to-Power OAM of the Generalized Cosine Gaussian Beams |
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170 | (2) |
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4.2.3 Numerical Simulation |
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172 | (3) |
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4.3 Astigmatic Transform of a Gaussian Beam with an Infinite Number of Edge Dislocations |
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175 | (2) |
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4.4 Optical Vortex Beams with a Symmetric and Almost Symmetric OAM-Spectrum |
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177 | (14) |
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4.4.1 Orbital Angular Momentum of a Beam with a Symmetric OAM-Spectrum |
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178 | (2) |
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4.4.2 Sample Beams with the Symmetric OAM-Spectrum |
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180 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Family of Form-Invariant Beams with an Almost Symmetric OAM-Spectrum |
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181 | (3) |
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4.4.4 Numerical Simulation |
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184 | (1) |
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Simulation of beams with a symmetric OAM-spectrum |
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184 | (3) |
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Numerical simulation of form-invariant beams with an almost symmetric OAM-spectrum |
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187 | (4) |
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Chapter 5 Transformation of an Edge Dislocation of a Wavefront into an Optical Vortex |
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191 | (34) |
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5.1 Converting an Array of Edge Dislocations into a Multi-Vortex beam |
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191 | (15) |
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5.1.1 Complex Amplitude at the Double Focal Length |
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192 | (4) |
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5.1.2 Orbital Angular Momentum |
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196 | (3) |
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5.1.3 Two Asymmetric Parallel Zero-Intensity Lines |
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199 | (1) |
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5.1.4 An Astigmatic Cosine--Gauss Beam |
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200 | (1) |
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5.1.5 Numerical Modelling |
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201 | (1) |
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Modeling the evolution of the optical vortices |
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201 | (1) |
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Modeling the evolution of OAM |
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202 | (3) |
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Modeling a beam with two non-axisymmetric parallel zero-intensity lines |
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205 | (1) |
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Modeling an astigmatic Cosine-Gauss beam |
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205 | (1) |
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5.2 Converting an nth-Order Edge Dislocation to a Set of Optical Vortices |
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206 | (6) |
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5.2.1 Complex Amplitude of Edge Dislocation at Double Focal Length |
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207 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Structurally Stable Vortex Beams |
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209 | (1) |
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5.2.3 Orbital Angular Momentum |
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210 | (1) |
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5.2.4 Numerical Simulation |
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211 | (1) |
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5.3 Astigmatic Transformation of a Fractional Order Edge Dislocation |
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212 | (13) |
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5.3.1 Complex Amplitude of a Field with a Fractional Order Edge Dislocation |
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213 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Complex Amplitude of the Field at Twice the Focal Length |
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214 | (1) |
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5.3.3 Kummer's and Tricomi Function Zeros |
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215 | (4) |
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5.3.4 Results of the Numerical Simulation |
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219 | (3) |
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5.3.5 Discussion of Results |
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222 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 Fourier-Invariant and Structurally Stable Optical Vortex Beams |
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225 | (28) |
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6.1 Fractional-Order-Bessel Fourier-Invariant Optical Vortices |
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225 | (9) |
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6.1.1 Fractional-Order Bessel Fourier-Modes |
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226 | (2) |
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6.1.2 Energy of the Fractional-Order Bessel Fourier-Modes |
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228 | (1) |
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6.1.3 Numerical Simulation |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (3) |
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232 | (1) |
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Beam propagation in free space |
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233 | (1) |
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6.2 New Type of Elegant Laser Beams: Sinusoidal Gaussian Optical Vortex |
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234 | (5) |
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6.2.1 Hypergeometric Beams with a Parabolic Wavefront |
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235 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Special Case: An Elegant Sinusoidal Gaussian Vortex |
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236 | (3) |
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6.2.3 Numerical Simulation |
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239 | (1) |
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6.3 Propagation-Invariant Off-Axis Elliptic Gaussian Beams with the Orbital Angular Momentum |
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239 | (14) |
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6.3.1 Propagation-Invariant Off-Axis Gaussian Beams |
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242 | (2) |
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6.3.2 Propagation-Invariant Elliptic Gaussian Beams |
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244 | (6) |
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6.3.3 Beam Power and the Orbital Angular Momentum |
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250 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 Topological Charge of Polarization Singularities |
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253 | (28) |
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7.1 Tightly Focusing Vector Beams Containing V-Point Polarization Singularities |
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253 | (15) |
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7.1.1 Vector Field Polarization Index in the Source Plane |
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254 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Number of Local Intensity Maxima at the Focus of a Vector Field |
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255 | (3) |
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7.1.3 Polarization Singularity Index for a Generalized Vector Field |
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258 | (1) |
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Calculating polarization singularity Index of a generalized vector field |
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259 | (3) |
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262 | (6) |
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7.2 Sharp Focusing of a Hybrid Vector Beams Containing C-Point Polarization Singularity |
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268 | (13) |
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7.2.1 Source Hybrid Vector Field with Polarization Singularity Points |
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269 | (2) |
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7.2.2 Vector Field with Polarization ngularity Points in the Plane of the Tight Focus |
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271 | (3) |
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274 | (7) |
| Conclusion |
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281 | (2) |
| References |
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283 | (18) |
| Index |
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