Both radially polarized (RP) and radially polarized vortex (RPV) beams are generated by an experimental setup with one phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator which efficiently modulates the phase retardation distributions of input beam by twice reflections. The polarizing properties and double-slit interference of both RP and RPV beams are investigated in detail. Misplacement and tilt appear in double-slit interference fringes of both RP beams and RPV beams in simulations and experiments. The fringe tilt number F in the intermediate region is proportional to the topological charge l of RPV beams with the approximate relation Fs(l)=0.8125l in simulations and Fe(l)=0.8182l in experiments. The double-slit interference method can be utilized to determine and analyze the topological charge of the beams.
The generation of femtosecond optical vortex beam based on direct wave-front modulation with phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator is demonstrated. The spatial and temporal properties of the generated femtosecond vortices are investigated in detail. The experimental results show remarkable agreement with the results of the theoretical analysis and simulations, and indicate that the method we utilized can efficiently generate femtosecond optical vortex beam of arbitrary topological charge. The temporal and spectral properties of the femtosecond pulsed beam are hardly affected by the phase dislocation imposed on the wave-front.
Both in-phase and out-phase radially polarized femtosecond-pulse (RPFP) beams have been generated with one phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator, which effectively modulates the phase retardation distributions of a pulse beam wavefront by two reflections. The intensity distributions and polarizing properties of both in-phase and out-phase RPFP beams are detected, and the temporal properties of in-phase RPFP beams are investigated in detail. Experimental results indicate that we effectively produce an RPFP beam. And the temporal duration of the output in-phase RPFP beam is 183 fs about 14 fs shorter than the input Gaussian femtosecond-pulse beam. The temporal durations of arbitrary polarized components of an in-phase RPFP beam vary less than 3.5%.
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