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Seidel comatic aberration is an important cause of deformation for a Laguerre--Gaussian (LG) beam. In addition, mono-axial comatic aberration, whose phase modulation depends only on one transverse coordinate, is also an important cause of beam deformation. Deformation of an LG beam by such aberrations is analyzed through numerical simulation based on the angular spectrum method. It is also shown that for holographically generated LG beams quadratic spatial variation of grating pitch can produce seidel and mono-axial comatic aberrations. An example of an experimentally generated LG beam with mono-axial comatic aberration is reported.
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Wada, A., Ohminato, H., Yonemura, T. et al. Effect of Comatic Aberration on the Propagation Characteristics of Laguerre--Gaussian Beams. OPT REV 12, 451–455 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-005-0451-x
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