Abstract
Special beams, including the Airy beam and the vortex-embedded Airy beam, draw much attention due to their unique features and promising applications. Therefore, it is necessary to devise a straightforward method for measuring these peculiar features of the beams with ease. Hence we present the astigmatic transformation of Airy and Airy-vortex beam. The "acceleration" coefficient of the Airy beam is directly determined from a single image by fitting the astigmatically transformed beam to an analytic expression. In addition, the orbital angular momentum of optical vortex in Airy-vortex beam is measured directly using a single image.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5411-5414 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Nov 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics