Title :
Electrooptical method for generating of optical vortices
Author :
Skab, I. ; Vasylkiv, Yu. ; Vlokh, R.
Author_Institution :
Institute of Physical Optics, Lviv, Ukraine
Abstract :
We have shown that the conically shaped electric field created in electrooptic crystals can lead to appearance of orbital angular momentum in the outgoing light beam and generating of optical vortex. It is verified experimentally on Bi12GeO20 crystals.
Keywords :
Crystals; Electric fields; Optical beams; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical vortices; Pockels effect; natural optical activity; optical vortex;
Conference_Titel :
Oxide Materials for Electronic Engineering (OMEE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lviv, Ukraine
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4491-3
DOI :
10.1109/OMEE.2012.6464796