Three- and four-level spiral phase plates
V.V. Kotlyar, A.A. Kovalev

Image Processing Systems Institute of the RAS,
Samara State Aerospace University

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
We analytically and numerically demonstrate that an optical vortex with topological charge 1 is formed near an optical axis or at the center of the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern, in domain approximately equaled to the Airy disk, during plane-wave diffraction at three- and four-level spiral phase plates (SPP), with triangle and square apertures. Composite SPPs assembled from six or four of these three- and four-level SPPs may build up optical vortices with topological charges 2 and 4.

Key words:
multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate, optical vortex, topological charge, triangle aperture.

Citation: Kotlyar VV, Kovalev AA. Three- and four-level spiral phase plates [In Russian]. Computer Optics 2008; 32(1): 9-14.

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