Free-space realization of tunable pin-like optical vortex beams

Domenico Bongiovanni; Denghui Li; Mihalis Goutsoulas; Hao Wu; Yi Hu; Daohong Song; Roberto Morandotti; Nikolaos K. Efremidis; Zhigang Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.420872

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