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Suzana Topuzoski

Publications and source records attributed to Suzana Topuzoski.

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arXiv2015

Gaussian laser beam transformation into an optical vortex beam by helical lens

In this article we investigate the Fresnel diffraction characteristics of the hybrid optical element which is a combination of a spiral phase plate (SPP) with topological charge p and a thin lens with focal length f, named the helical lens (HL). As incident a Gaussian laser beam is treated, having its waist a distance from the HL plane and its axis passing through the centre of the HL. It is shown that the SPP introduces a phase singularity of p-th order to the incident beam, while the lens transforms the beam characteristic parameters. The output light beam is analyzed in detail: its characteristic parameters and focusing properties, amplitude and intensity distributions and the vortex rings profiles and radii, at any z distance behind the HL plane, as well as in the near and far field.

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arXiv2011

Diffraction characteristics of optical elements designed as phase layers with cosine-profiled periodicity in azimuthal direction

The article concerns an investigation of the Fresnel diffraction characteristics of two types of phase optical elements, under Gaussian laser beam illumination. Both elements provide an azimuthal periodicity of the phase retardation. The first element possess azimuthal cosine-profiled phase changes deposited on a plane base. The second element is a combination of the first element and a thin phase axicon. The cosine profile of the phase retardation, of both diffractive elements, produces an azimuthal cosine-profiled modulation on their diffractograms. It destroys the vortex characteristics of their diffraction fields.

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arXiv2010

Fraunhofer diffraction of a Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam by fork-shaped grating

In this article we present a theoretical study for Fraunhofer diffraction of a Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam with zeroth radial mode number and azimuthal mode number l by diffractive grating with embedded fork-shaped dislocations of integer order p. Analytical expressions describing the diffracted wave field amplitude and intensity distributions in the Fourier plane are deduced and analyzed. They are also followed by the vortex radii expressions.

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arXiv2008

Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction of a laser Gaussian beam by fork-shaped gratings

Expressions describing the vortex beams, which are generated in a process of Fresnel diffraction of a Gaussian beam, incident out of waist on a fork-shaped gratings of arbitrary integer charge p, and vortex spots in the case of Fraunhofer diffraction by these gratings are deduced. The common general transmission function of the gratings is defined and specialized for the cases of amplitude holograms, binary amplitude gratings, and their phase versions. Optical vortex beams, or carriers of phase singularity with charges mp and -mp, are the higher negative and positive diffraction order beams. The radial part of their wave amplitudes is described by the product of mp-th order Gauss-doughnut function and a Kummer function, or by the first order Gauss-doughnut function and a difference of two modified Bessel functions, whose orders do not match the singularity charge value. The wave amplitude and the intensity distributions are discussed for the near and far field, in the focal plane of a convergent lens, as well as the specialization of the results when the grating charge p=0, i.e. the grating turns from forked into rectilinear. The analytical expressions for the vortex radii are also discussed.

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