Speaker
Mr
Mitchell Cox
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
PhD
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
No
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Andrew Forbes (andrew.forbes@wits.ac.za) Wits
Please indicate whether<br>this abstract may be<br>published online<br>(Yes / No)
Yes
Abstract content <br> (Max 300 words)<br><a href="http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=0&confId=34" target="_blank">Formatting &<br>Special chars</a>
Vector beams have many uses in optics and photonics such as optical communications, trapping and microscopy. Dynamic generation of scalar modes has become commonplace with the use of Spatial Light Modulators, however, due to the polarization dependent nature of SLMs, they cannot readily be used to create vector modes. Static vector modes can be readily generated using elements such as Q-Plates, however, dynamic vector beams remain a challenge. Here we outline several approaches to creating such beams in an all-digital manner that overcomes the aforementioned problems. Our work paves the way for encoding and decoding of information into such modes.
Primary author
Mr
Mitchell Cox
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Co-authors
Prof.
Andrew Forbes
(CSIR)
Dr
Carmelo Rosales-Guzman
(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
