Paper A95

Tuning the Gouy phase of laser beams by necklace-like structures of optical vortices

N. Gorunski, M. Mincheva, E. Lazarov, I. Stefanov, A. Stefanov, L. Stoyanov, A. Dreischuh

Abstract.

In this work, we report numerical simulations and experimental results indicating the possibility of determining and controlling the rate of change of the Gouy phase of structured Gaussian-like beams. This is achieved by nesting singly-charged optical vortices with the same signs of their topological charges in necklace-like structures.