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Wavefront sensing with all-digital Stokes measurementsFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
A long-standing question in optics has been to efficiently measure the phase (or wavefront) of an optical field. This has led to numerous publications and commercial devices such as phase shift interferometry, wavefront reconstruction via modal decomposition and Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors. In this work we develop a new technique to extract the phase which in contrast to previously mentioned methods is based on polarization (or Stokes) measurements. We outline a simple, all-digital approach using only a spatial light modulator and a polarization grating to exploit the amplitude and phase relationship between the orthogonal states of polarization to determine the phase of an optical field. We implement this technique to reconstruct the phase of static and propagating optical vortices.
Paper Details
Date Published: 25 September 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9194, Laser Beam Shaping XV, 91940C (25 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2060568
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9194:
Laser Beam Shaping XV
Andrew Forbes; Todd E. Lizotte, Editor(s)
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9194, Laser Beam Shaping XV, 91940C (25 September 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2060568
Show Author Affiliations
Angela Dudley, CSIR National Laser Ctr. (South Africa)
Giovanni Milione, The City College of New York (United States)
Giovanni Milione, The City College of New York (United States)
Robert R. Alfano, The City College of New York (United States)
Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Ctr. (South Africa)
Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Ctr. (South Africa)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9194:
Laser Beam Shaping XV
Andrew Forbes; Todd E. Lizotte, Editor(s)
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