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Spiral phase plate looking for advise on making shape..tia sal

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Mark Fergerson

Jan 1, 1970
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Spiral phase plate looking for advise on making shape..tia sal

Greetings all
I'm trying to make a spiral phase plate out of plastic (see link below). I have all the tools I'm just a little lost as
how I should procede. It doesn't have to be perfect or large. The Diameter would be just 5 inches

Kewl. I'd try casting first, since I'm not much of a machinist.
OTOH you may find that the range of refractive index is limited in
castable transparent stuff. If you're feeling froggy, try glass.

Stray thought; make a similarly-shaped mirror out of polished
metal by making a radial cut in a thin disc, then displace the edges
of the cut just a little bit. Use the finished product as the back
mirror in a gas laser. CW orbital-angular-momentum laser?

Mark L. Fergerson
 

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