Dudley, Angela LMajola, NChetty, NForbes, A2016-09-012016-09-012016-02Dudley, A.L., Majola, N, Chetty, N and Forbes, A. 2016. Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields. American Journal of Physics, vol 84(2), pp. 106-1120002-9505http://structuredlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Dudley.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/8750Copyright: 2016 American Association of Physics TeachersThe coherent superposition of a Gaussian beam with an optical vortex can be mathematically described to occupy the complex plane. The authors provide a simple analogy between the mathematics, in the form of the complex plane, and the visual representation of these two superimposed optical fields. They provide detailed instructions as to how one can experimentally produce, measure, and control these fields with the use of digital holograms encoded on a spatial light modulator.enComplex-plane optical fieldsDigital hologramGaussian beamSpatial light modulatorArticleDudley, A. L., Majola, N., Chetty, N., & Forbes, A. (2016). Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8750Dudley, Angela L, N Majola, N Chetty, and A Forbes "Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields." (2016) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8750Dudley AL, Majola N, Chetty N, Forbes A. Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields. 2016; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8750.TY - Article AU - Dudley, Angela L AU - Majola, N AU - Chetty, N AU - Forbes, A AB - The coherent superposition of a Gaussian beam with an optical vortex can be mathematically described to occupy the complex plane. The authors provide a simple analogy between the mathematics, in the form of the complex plane, and the visual representation of these two superimposed optical fields. They provide detailed instructions as to how one can experimentally produce, measure, and control these fields with the use of digital holograms encoded on a spatial light modulator. DA - 2016-02 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Complex-plane optical fields KW - Digital hologram KW - Gaussian beam KW - Spatial light modulator LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2016 SM - 0002-9505 T1 - Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields TI - Implementing digital holograms to create and measure complex-plane optical fields UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/8750 ER -