Azimuthal beam shaping in orbital angular momentum basis

Zhongzheng Lin; Weihang Zhong; Lixun Wu; Lin He; Hongjia Chen; Jianqi Hu; Yujie Chen; Siyuan Yu

doi:10.1117/1.APN.3.2.026001

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