Spectral Anomalies at Wave-Front Dislocations

G. Popescu, A. Dogariu

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Abstract

In a recent Letter, Gbur, Visser, and Wolf [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013901 (2002)] predict that remarkable spectral changes can take place in the neighborhood of phase singularities of a diffracted focused wave. We report here the experimental observation of this anomalous spectral behavior and show that this is a general characteristic of optical vortices. Using a high-resolution interferometric technique, we are able to measure directly both the spectral intensity distribution and the spectral phase at the singular points of optical waves.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume88
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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