Direct measurement of the skew angle of the Poynting vector in a helically phased beam

Discontinued Devices LC-R 2500 Spatial Light Modulators
Higher Order Modes / Optical Vortex / OAM Misc.: Speckle / Characterization / Metrology
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Authors: Jonathan Leach, Stephen Keen, Miles J. Padgett, Christopher Saunter, and Gordon D. Love
Abstract:

“We measure the local skew angle of the Poynting vector within a helically-phased, exp (il φ), beam using a Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor. It is the skew angle of the Poynting vector with respect to the beam axis that gives rise to the orbital angular momentum of a light beam. We confirm that this skew angle is l/kr, corresponding to an orbital angular momentum of lћ per photon. Measurement of orbital angular momentum in this way is an alternative to interferometric techniques giving a non-ambiguous result to both the magnitude and sign of l from a single measurement, without any restriction on the optical bandwidth.”

Open Access

Publication: Optics Express
Issue/Year: Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 25, pp. 11919-11924 (2006)
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011919
Link: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.14.011919

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