Optical vortex vectographs

Grover A Swartzlander Jr; Arvind Marathay; Jennifer M Harwell; Joshua Gordon; Jason Figueiredo

doi:10.1364/ol.34.001216

Optical vortex vectographs

Opt Lett. 2009 Apr 15;34(8):1216-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.34.001216.

Authors

Grover A Swartzlander Jr¹, Arvind Marathay, Jennifer M Harwell, Joshua Gordon, Jason Figueiredo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics and Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 54 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623, USA. grovers@mail.rit.com

PMID: 19370122
DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.001216

Abstract

We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate how "vectograph" film may be used to create arbitrarily complex vector fields having broadband phase features such as optical vortices.