Gaussian Lenses Initiate Optical Vortices in LaserBeams During Self-action in Kerr-like Medium |
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Institution: | 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA;2. Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc., Clarksburg, MD, USA |
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Abstract: | It is shown that Gaussian lenses initiate closed line of dislocations in coherent beamswith initially smooth wavefront. The stigmatic lenses originate the circle line of edge dislocation,situated on the beam cross-section. In the case of astigmatic Gaussian lens this closed curve getsout from the plane and a quadruple of alternate single-charged optical vortices is born andannihilates in the beam cross-section. The distribution of topological charge signs in the quadruplealong z axis is defined by focusing or defocusing type of Gaussian lens. The model ofGaussian lenses explains self-action of fundamental mode laser beams transmitted by Kerr-likemedia. Two methods were used for study of optical singularities appearance: the geometricaloptics analysis for rapid qualitative location and numerical modeling of Kirchhoff-Fresnel integralfor exact solution. |
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