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3D Femtosecond Laser Submicron Lithography as a Way of Fabricating Spiral Phase Plates for Forming Photon Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

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A spiral phase plate with a topological charge of 1 is fabricated via 3D femtosecond laser submicron lithography. An optical scheme based on a Michelson interferometer is developed and assembled to check the vortex properties of a generated laser beam. Optical measurements confirm that the spiral phase plate generates an optical laser vortex with a normalized orbital angular momentum of |m| = 1. A technology for fabricating and testing spiral phase plates that transmit the required orbital angular momentum to the laser field is developed.

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This work was performed as a part of a State Task for the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Solid State Physics and Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials, project no. 075-00920-20-00.

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  1. Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, , Moscow oblast, , Russia

    A. A. Demenev

  2. Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. V. Kovalchuk, E. A. Polushkin & S. Yu. Shapoval

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Demenev, A.A., Kovalchuk, A.V., Polushkin, E.A. et al. 3D Femtosecond Laser Submicron Lithography as a Way of Fabricating Spiral Phase Plates for Forming Photon Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 85, 159–164 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873821020076

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