Detecting orbital angular momentum of perfect optical vortex beams based on diffraction neural networks

Ke CHENG; Xiaonan HU; Yu HE; Weijia MENG; Haitao LUAN; Min GU; Xinyuan FANG

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461.2022.02.006

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