Method to measure off-axis displacements based on the analysis of the intensity distribution of a vortex beam

Details Method to measure off-axis displacements based on the analysis of the intensity distribution of a vortex beam Method to measure off-axis displacements based on the analysis of the intensity distribution of a vortex beam

2009-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4794v1

Physics

Optics

8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033845

We study the properties of the Fraunhofer diffraction patterns produced by Gaussian beams crossing spiral phase plates. We show, both analytically and numerically, that off-axis displacements of the input beam produce asymmetric diffraction patterns. The intensity profile along the direction of maximum asymmetry shows two different peaks. We find that the intensity ratio between these two peaks decreases exponentially with the off-axis displacement of the incident beam, the decay being steeper for higher strengths of the optical singularity of the spiral phase plate. We analyze how this intensity ratio can be used to measure small misalignments of the input beam with a very high precision.

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