Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2009-06-15
Physics
Optics
12 pages with 6 figures. Submitted to Journal of Holography and Speckle in June 2007, accepted but is still awaiting publicati
Scientific paper
Holographic gratings with topological defects (branching of one or more fringes) are widely used for generating light beams with optical vortices (OV). This work presents an analysis of OV beams produced by binary computer-generated holograms enlightened by Gaussian beams centered at the fringe bifurcation point. Usually such beams are considered as analogs of the standard solutions of paraxial wave equation - Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes representing classical examples of OVs. However, the intensity profile and the whole process of their spatial evolution show important differences from the LG prototypes. In the case of integer topological charge, a created OV beam can be described by the special Kummer function, which allows referring to these beams as to "Kummer beams". Properties of Kummer beams are studied numerically and analytically. Main distinctions from the corresponding LG modes are much slower intensity decay at the beam periphery and much higher beam divergence; differences between the Kummer and LG beams grow with the OV topological charge.
Bekshaev Aleksandr Y.
Karamoch A. I.
Pas'ko V. A.
Soskin Marat S.
Vasnetsov M. V.
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