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The present study experimentally examines how an electron vortex beam with orbital angular momentum (OAM) undergoes diffraction through a forked grating. The nth-order diffracted electron vortex beam after passing through a forked grating…
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We present a geometric framework to model the optical effects of deformations of planar holographic optical elements (HOE) into curved surfaces, such as sphere segments. In particular, we consider deformations which do not preserve the…
When generating light with orbital angular momentum by imprinting orbital phase onto a standard Gaussian beam, it is often assumed that the propagation of the generated spatial mode is a Laguerre-Gaussian. However, the true propagation of…
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Using the correspondence between solutions of gravitational and gauge theories (the so-called classical double copy conjecture) some electromagnetic fields with vortices are constructed, for which the Lorentz force equations are…