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Title: Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging can be used to simultaneously characterize the amplitude and phase of bichromatic orbital angular momenta-shaped vortex beams, which consist of a fundamental field, together with its copropagating second-harmonic field. In contrast to most other orbital angular momentum characterization methods, this approach solves for the complex field of a hyperspectral beam. Lastly, this technique can also be used to characterize other phase-structured illumination beams, and, in the future, will be able to be extended to other complex fields in the extreme ultraviolet or X-ray spectral regions, as well as to matter waves.

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Research Org.:
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). The Regents; Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); BBVA Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1486899
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1487214; OSTI ID: 1907877
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-99ER14982
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 26 Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Esashi, Y., Liao, C. -T., Wang, B., Brooks, N., Dorney, K. M., Hernández-García, C., Kapteyn, H., Adams, D., and Murnane, M. Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.26.034007.
Esashi, Y., Liao, C. -T., Wang, B., Brooks, N., Dorney, K. M., Hernández-García, C., Kapteyn, H., Adams, D., & Murnane, M. Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.034007
Esashi, Y., Liao, C. -T., Wang, B., Brooks, N., Dorney, K. M., Hernández-García, C., Kapteyn, H., Adams, D., and Murnane, M. Fri . "Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.034007.
@article{osti_1486899,
title = {Ptychographic amplitude and phase reconstruction of bichromatic vortex beams},
author = {Esashi, Y. and Liao, C. -T. and Wang, B. and Brooks, N. and Dorney, K. M. and Hernández-García, C. and Kapteyn, H. and Adams, D. and Murnane, M.},
abstractNote = {We experimentally demonstrate that ptychographic coherent diffractive imaging can be used to simultaneously characterize the amplitude and phase of bichromatic orbital angular momenta-shaped vortex beams, which consist of a fundamental field, together with its copropagating second-harmonic field. In contrast to most other orbital angular momentum characterization methods, this approach solves for the complex field of a hyperspectral beam. Lastly, this technique can also be used to characterize other phase-structured illumination beams, and, in the future, will be able to be extended to other complex fields in the extreme ultraviolet or X-ray spectral regions, as well as to matter waves.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.26.034007},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 26,
volume = 26,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Experimental schematic for simultaneously imaging an orbital angular momentum beam and its second harmonic. A laser beam with center wavelength 790 nm propagates through a spiral phase plate (SPP) of $\ell$= 2 and is focused to a BBO crystal using a lens (L1). The fundamental and second harmonicmore » beams both illuminate a resolution test target, and are Fourier transformed via another lens (L2). The target is moved with respect to the two beams, and diffraction patterns are collected on a CMOS camera. Theoretically rendered helical wavefronts of red (790 nm) and blue (395 nm) OAM beams are shown at the top. M1 and M2: mirrors.« less

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