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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 6, 641 (2018)

Optical vortex copier and regenerator in the Fourier domain

Xiaodong Qiu¹, Fangshu Li¹, Haigang Liu², Xianfeng Chen^2,3,*, and Lixiang Chen^1,4,*

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¹Department of Physics, Jiujiang Research Institute and Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Semiconductors and Efficient Devices, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

²State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³e-mail: xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: chenlx@xmu.edu.cn

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