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Simultaneous determination of the sign and the magnitude of the topological charge of a partially coherent vortex beam

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Determination of the magnitude of the topological charge of a partially coherent vortex beam has been reported both theoretically and experimentally recently, while how to determine the sign of the topological charge of such beam remains unsolved. In this paper, we propose a simple method for simultaneous determination of the sign and the magnitude of the topological charge of a partially coherent vortex beam. This method is based on the measurement of the complex degree of coherence (CDOC) of a partially coherent vortex beam after propagating through a couple of cylindrical lenses. We find that the number of the bright fringes and the orientation of the distribution of the CDOC correspond to the magnitude and the sign of the topological charge, respectively. This phenomenon is confirmed by our experimental results.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar under Grant No. 11525418, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NFSC) under Grant Nos. 11274005 and 61108005, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. LY15F050004 and Y6100244, and China Scholarship Council (No. 201508330072).

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  1. College of Optical and Electronic Technology, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Jun Chen

  2. College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China

    Xianlong Liu, Jiayi Yu & Yangjian Cai

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Chen, J., Liu, X., Yu, J. et al. Simultaneous determination of the sign and the magnitude of the topological charge of a partially coherent vortex beam. Appl. Phys. B 122, 201 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6470-4

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