Abstract

We present an analytic calculation of the diffraction of a vortex beam by a triangular aperture. This calculation is used to study the diffraction of multimode vortex beams and off-axis vortex beams. Implications of these results for the effectiveness of diffraction as a vortex detection method are discussed.

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