Measuring Orbital Angular Momentum of Vortex Beam Using Modified Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Miao Yu; Yaqiu Wang; He Zhang; Yun Zhang; Fan Liu; Shuang Lin; Mingying Chang; Ting Ge; Yuanfei Jiang; Anmin Chen; Suyu Li; Mingxing Jin

doi:10.3788/LOP202259.1705001

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