Customizing optical vortex beams array by coherent beam combining technique

Abstract

In this paper, an innovation coherent beam combining (CBC) architecture to generate the structured light beams array was proposed and experimented. The simulation and experimental results reveal that the optical vortex beams array (OVBA) with multi-modes can be generated effectively in the far field. The OVBA is composed of multiple sub-OVB in the intensity distribution. Furthermore, the number of OVBs can be modulated by changing the fill factor of the laser array in the near field. In particular, the performance of a OVBA copier was observed, which may deepen the understanding of creating the structured light fields by CBC technique. The experiment results were in excellent agreement with the simulation results. This work could provide valuable and practical reference on generation and manipulation of high power structured light beams.