Optical fiber antenna generating spiral beam shapes
- CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Sector-30, Chandigarh 160030 (India)
- Banwarilal Bhalotia College, Asansol, West Bengal 713303 (India)
A simple method is proposed here to generate vortex beam and spiral intensity patterns from a Gaussian source. It uses a special type of optical fiber antenna of aperture ∼80 nm having naturally grown surface curvature along its length. The antenna converts linearly polarized Gaussian beam into a beam with spiral intensity patterns. The experimentally obtained spiral patterns with single and double spiral arms manifest the orbital angular momentum, l = ±1, 2, carried by the output beam. Such beam can be very useful for optical tweezer, metal machining, and similar applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 22280716
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 3; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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