Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023011MaRDI QIDQ3387628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Miles J. Padgett, Filippo M. Miatto, Martin P. J. Lavery, Anton Zeilinger, Robert W. Boyd

Publication date 13 January 2021

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8722

zbMATH Keywords

orbital angular momentumbeam divergencefree-space propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Physical optics (78A10)

Abstract: There is recent interest in the use of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) for creating multiple channels within free-space optical communication systems. One limiting issue is that, for a given beam size at the transmitter, the beam divergence angle increases with increasing OAM, thus requiring a larger aperture at the receiving optical system if the efficiency of detection is to be maintained. Confusion exists as to whether this divergence scales linarly with, or with the square root of, the beam's OAM. We clarify how both these scaling laws are valid, depending upon whether it is the radius of the Gaussian beam waist or the rms intensity which is kept constant while varying the OAM.

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