Mapping phases of singular scalar light fields

Vladimir G. Denisenko; Alexander Minovich; Anton S. Desyatnikov; Wieslaw Krolikowski; Marat S. Soskin; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OL.33.000089

Mapping phases of singular scalar light fields

Vladimir G. Denisenko, Alexander Minovich, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Marat S. Soskin, Yuri S. Kivshar

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Abstract

We implement experimentally a simple method for accurate measurements of phase distributions of scalar light fields. The method is based on the polarimetric technique for recording the polarization maps of vector fields, where coaxial superposition of orthogonally polarized reference and signal beams allows the signal phase to be reconstructed from the polarization map of the total field. We demonstrate this method by resolving topologically neutral pairs of closely positioned vortices in a speckle field and recovering the positions of vortices within a Laguerre-Gaussian beam with the topological charge three.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	89-91
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.000089
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2008

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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