• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 39, Issue 1, 0126014 (2019)
Shiyao Fu* and Chunqing Gao*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS201939.0126014 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Shiyao Fu, Chunqing Gao. Selective Generation of Arbitrary Vectorial Vortex Beams[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(1): 0126014 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Vectorial vortex beams are a new kind of structure beams, with anisotropic polarization distributions and carrying orbital angular momentum. Such unique features contribute to their applications in lots of domains as optical communications, optical tweezers, laser material processing, etc. Different applications need different polarization and phase distributions. So generating vectorial vortex beams with continuously adjustable polarization and phase distributions is of great importance. In this paper, we introduce some approaches for generating vectorial vortex beams developed in our group, including generation of single vectorial vortex beams outside the cavity and generation of vectorial vortex beams arrays.