Abstract

We investigate output mode purities of Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams generated from four typical simultaneous amplitude and phase modulation methods with phase-only spatial light modulators (SLMs). Numerical simulations supposing the practical SLM, i.e., stepwise phase modulation with a pixelated device, predict an output mode purity of beyond 0.969 for the LG beams of less than radially and azimuthally fifth order. Experimental results of generating LG beams are also shown to demonstrate the effects of the simultaneous phase and amplitude modulation.

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