Fig. 7: Simulating the effects of diffraction from the SLM. | Communications Physics

Fig. 7: Simulating the effects of diffraction from the SLM.

From: Effects of aberrations on 3D optical topologies

Fig. 7

We show the simulation of a trefoil knot affected by secondary astigmatism for aperture A = 6.6w0 without (a) and with (b) the effects of the zeroth diffraction order included. These results partially explain the breakup observed at A = 7w0 in the experiment (c).

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