Author:McLaren, M; Sidderas-Haddad, E; Forbes, ADate:Sep 2011It is now well known that matter may be trapped by optical fields with high intensity gradients. Once trapped, it is then possible to manipulate microscopic particles using such optical fields, in so-called optical tweezers. Such optical ...Read more
Author:Litvin, IA; Dudley, Angela L; Roux, FS; Forbes, ADate:May 2012We demonstrate a simple approach, using digital holograms, to perform a complete azimuthal decomposition of an optical field. Importantly, we use a set of basis functions that are not scale dependent so that unlike other methods, no knowledge ...Read more
Author:Dudley, Angela L; Mhlanga, T; Lavery, M; McDonald, Andre M; Roux, FS; Padget, M; Forbes, ADate:Jan 2013We demonstrate the efficient sorter of Bessel beams separating both the azimuthal and radial components. This is based upon the recently reported transformation of angular to transverse momentum states. We separately identify over forty ...Read more
Author:Chen, M; Roux, FSDate:Oct 2010Knowledge of the behavior of stochastic optical fields can aid the understanding of the scintillation of light propagating through a turbulent medium. For this purpose, the authors perform a numerical investigation of the evolution of the ...Read more
Author:Dudley, Angela LDate:Jul 2016This presentation focuses on the manipulation of structured light. Structured light manipulation allows people to dynamical change the spatial profile of an optical field.Read more
Author:Schulze, C; Flamm, D; Dudley, Angela L; Forbes, A; Duparr'e, MDate:Feb 2013We present a novel technique to measure the orbital angular momentum (OAM) density of light. The technique is based on modal decomposition, enabling the complete reconstruction of optical fields, including the reconstruction of the beams ...Read more
Author:Roux, FSDate:Jun 2011The presentation on topological charge distributions in stochastic optical fields concludes that by using a combination of speckle fields one can produce inhomogeneous vortex distributions that allow both analytical calculations and numerical ...Read more
Author:Dudley, Angela LDate:Jan 2012The work presented in this thesis is centred on the generation of superimposed optical fields which each carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) and the development of OAM measurement techniques. Optical fields which carry OAM have found ...Read more
Author:Forbes, A; Schulze, C; Ngcobo, Sandile; Flamm, D; Naidoo, Darryl; Dudley, Angela L; Duparre, MDate:Feb 2013Modal decomposition of optical fields as a concept has been in existence for many decades, yet despite its clear applications to laser beam analysis it has nevertheless remained a seldom used tool. With the commercialization of liquid crystal ...Read more