293 results about "Phase matching" patented technology

The invention provides a high-speed large-capacity intermediate infrared laser communication method and system based on an integrated waveguide, and is mainly used for solving the problems that when an existing space laser communication system adopts intermediate infrared band transmission, a frequency conversion scheme based on a block material is poor in phase matching, large in size, low in conversion efficiency, low in cost and the like. And the actual requirements of high-speed and large-capacity communication are difficult to meet. According to the high-speed large-capacity mid-infrared laser communication method based on the integrated waveguide, the first integrated waveguide is adopted to realize conversion from a near-infrared band to a mid-infrared band frequency comb, the wavelength division multiplexing technology is combined to maximize the channel capacity, and then the second integrated waveguide is adopted to restore a near-infrared band optical signal. The problems of insufficient capacity, generation of attenuation and loss, low rate and the like when near-infrared band optical signals are transmitted in an atmospheric channel are avoided, space laser communication with the rate of Tbps magnitude is realized, an optical field can be restrained in a micro-nano waveguide structure to the greatest extent, and the frequency conversion efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a reflective array antenna control method and system based on a broadband dual-polarization unit, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a target wave beam pointing instruction, and carrying out the orthogonal decomposition of the target wave beam pointing instruction into a first polarization control vector and a second polarization control vector; calculating a theoretical phase frequency spectrum of each unit according to the polarization control vector; calling a preset database to extract a basic phase spectrum; quantitative mapping is carried out by calculating a matching error between a theory and a basic phase frequency spectrum, a phase control code containing the first polarization and the second polarization is obtained and loaded to a corresponding broadband dual-polarization unit to drive the switching of a physical state of the broadband dual-polarization unit, and real-time reconstruction of a wave beam is realized. Compared with the prior art, the antenna can overcome the defects that a traditional reflective array antenna is serious in polarization component coupling, low in phase matching degree in a broadband range and inaccurate in phase control code acquisition, and remarkably enhances the independent pointing precision and the full-band gain stability of dual-polarization beams. Therefore, flexible reconstruction of the wave beam in polarization and frequency dimensions is realized.

The invention relates to a self-adaptive on-chip optical coherence beam combiner and a method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of integrated photonics and optical coherence combination. Aiming at the problems of difficult phase matching, high system complexity, insufficient stability and the like in the prior art, the invention provides an efficient solution based on an intelligent optimization algorithm and a closed-loop feedback mechanism. The optimal voltage setting is quickly found through an intelligent optimization algorithm, and accurate phase and amplitude adjustment of the multi-path input light field is realized; based on a closed-loop feedback mechanism, the phase and amplitude of the beam combining unit are monitored in real time and dynamically adjusted, and the stability and reliability of the system are ensured. The high-integration-level on-chip optical system is realized, the complexity and the operation difficulty of the system are remarkably reduced, and meanwhile, the performance of each beam combining unit is ensured to be optimal through step-by-step optimization, so that the output power of a beam combining port is maximized. The method can be applied to the fields of optical communication, optical sensing and the like, and a new solution is provided for development of the optical coherent combination technology.

The invention discloses an ultra-wideband femtosecond optical parametric oscillator capable of being quickly tuned, and relates to the technical field of optical parametric oscillators. The oscillator comprises a frequency doubling device, an optical parametric oscillator resonant cavity device and a dispersion compensation chirp mirror pair module. According to the invention, the original phase matching bandwidth is further broken through by adopting a non-collinear phase matching mode that the transmission included angle between the pump light and the signal light is 2.5 degrees, and rapid wavelength tuning can be realized only by finely tuning the cavity length under the condition that the angle of the nonlinear crystal is not adjusted; the broadband tunable optical parametric oscillator can break through the bottlenecks in the aspects of wavelength tuning range, wavelength tuning speed and the like of the existing near-infrared optical parametric oscillator, and provides a novel light source with larger wavelength tuning range and higher tuning speed for the fields needing broadband tunable light sources, such as spectroscopy, micro-nano processing, optical frequency combs and the like.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nonlinear optics, and discloses a method and a structure for realizing nonlinear waveguide quasi-phase matching. A plurality of groups of micro-nano structures are formed on the nonlinear waveguide along the waveguide propagation direction, each group of micro-nano structures comprises one or more air holes, the micro-nano structures are utilized to cause relative phases between different wavelength modes to generate jump, phase differences caused by phase mismatch are compensated, and quasi-phase matching is realized. The phase matching scheme provided by the invention is applicable to all nonlinear materials and waveguides, and has the advantage of high universality.

The invention provides a high-power wide-spectrum long-wave infrared femtosecond laser generation method, and relates to the technical field of infrared ultrafast laser. According to the method, the 1.5 [mu] m pumping BGSe crystal is adopted, compared with a traditional 1 [mu] m pumping BGSe crystal, the heat accumulation effect is greatly reduced, and the operation stability of the system is remarkably improved in combination with a water-cooling heat dissipation device. Through crystal cutting angle optimization and phase matching design, 10-16 [mu] m wide-spectrum long-wave infrared femtosecond laser output is achieved, the power reaches 100 mW, and the application requirements in the fields of molecular spectrum recognition, environment monitoring and the like are met.

The invention discloses a broadband nonlinear frequency converter which comprises a silicon dioxide coating layer, an x-cut lithium niobate film layer, a silicon dioxide buffer layer and a silicon substrate layer from top to bottom, the x-cut lithium niobate film layer is provided with a weak bending ridge waveguide, and the bending angle of the weak bending ridge waveguide is not larger than 5 degrees. According to the invention, birefringence phase matching is realized on the lithium niobate film in a weak bending waveguide form, so that broadband second harmonic generation, birefringence phase matching wavelength and matching angle correlation are realized, and an included angle between a wave vector of transmitted fundamental frequency light and a crystal optical axis is continuously and slightly changed through the weak bending film, so that the broadband second harmonic generation is realized. Therefore, birefringence phase matching of different wavelengths can be realized at different matching angles, and the purpose of broadband matching is achieved.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of fiber lasers, and particularly relates to a high-efficiency frequency doubling system for a laser. The high-efficiency frequency doubling system for the laser comprises a first lens, a first frequency doubling crystal, a 4f system and a second frequency doubling crystal which are arranged in sequence. According to the high-efficiency frequency doubling system for the laser, the two frequency doubling crystals are used, phase matching is adopted, S polarization light and P polarization light of fundamental frequency light are subjected to frequency doubling in sequence to form P polarization frequency doubling light and S polarization frequency doubling light, two times of frequency doubling of the non-polarization-maintaining fiber laser are achieved through two times of frequency doubling, and high-power green light in the mixed polarization direction is obtained. And under the condition that the infrared fundamental frequency power is kept unchanged, the proportion of S polarization component light to P polarization component light is changed due to the change of the polarization state, but two generated green light beams are complementary, so that the power output is more stable than that of one crystal.

The invention relates to the technical field of optical waveguides, and particularly provides a polarization-independent prism coupling method and a waveguide structure, an optical anisotropic material is introduced into a substrate layer, a core layer and / or a cladding in a prism coupling waveguide, and a transverse electric mode and a transverse magnetic mode in the waveguide have the same effective refractive index by adjusting the refractive index distribution of the optical anisotropic material, so that the polarization-independent prism coupling method is realized. Different polarization states in the same light beam can be coupled into an optical waveguide at the same time, prism coupling is not limited by polarization sensitivity any more, the problem that a traditional prism coupling mode is limited by phase matching constraint is solved, and light of different polarization states in the same light beam has the optimal coupling angle.

The invention discloses a tunable narrow-band medium-wave infrared detection method based on up-conversion, and the method mainly comprises the steps: building a tunable narrow-band medium-wave infrared detection system, adjusting the power of signal light and pump light and the size of a beam waist, and controlling the temperature of a nonlinear crystal at a room temperature level to suppress the noise of a static system. A nonlinear crystal is designed through displacement of a multi-polarization period of a mechanical motion module, so that quasi-phase matching of signal light and pump light in a range of 3-5 microns is realized in different polarization period channels, sum frequency light of a visible wave band is generated, and flexible tuning of the signal light in a wide spectral range is realized; after stray light is filtered out, a sum frequency signal is received by a detector, a corresponding curve is obtained according to detected intensity information corresponding to each wavelength, and narrow-band response characteristics of different polarization periods are obtained.

The invention discloses a radio frequency signal control device and method and related equipment, and relates to the technical field of radiotherapy, and the device comprises a main control module which is used for the execution of radio frequency signal control logic, and is used for collecting the signal of a radio frequency cavity and the incident power and reflection power of a directional coupler in real time, and feeding back the power to the main control module, the signal of the radio frequency cavity comprises D box power; the phase detection module is used for detecting the phase error of the incident power and the D box power in real time and generating an oscillation driving signal during phase matching; the amplification module is used for amplifying the oscillation driving signal; and the base signal generation module is used for generating a radio frequency base signal according to the received oscillation driving signal so as to realize closed-loop control of a radio frequency signal of the synchrocyclotron and realize stable and efficient acceleration of a proton beam in the synchrocyclotron system.

The invention belongs to the technical field of laser vibration measurement, and provides a self-focusing laser Doppler vibration measurement method and system capable of resisting self-vibration of an optical fiber, and the method comprises the steps: adding a compensation light path which is used for sensing and generating reference light which is equal to an interference signal in amplitude and is opposite to the interference signal in real time in a Doppler vibration measurement light path, and taking the minimum mean square error as a self-adaptive matching criterion; interference phases obtained by synchronous demodulation of the compensation light path and the main light path are subjected to adaptive matching and cancellation in amplitude and phase dimensions, residual errors of vibration of the vibration measurement system and other environmental interferences are suppressed below noise of the vibration measurement system, and the purpose of balancing and weakening optical fiber vibration interferences in an instrument is achieved. The influence of the vibration factor of the instrument is reduced, and the interference influence is accurately eliminated through amplitude and phase matching by a demodulation algorithm corresponding to a compensation light path; meanwhile, by dynamically observing and updating the return light intensity threshold, low-frequency disturbance is resisted, and accurate automatic focusing is achieved.

The invention provides a preparation method and application of a compound cesium ammonium fluoborate and a cesium ammonium fluoborate nonlinear optical crystal. The chemical formula of the compound is CsNH4B8O12F2; the chemical formula of the crystal is CsNH4B8O12F2, the crystal belongs to a trigonal system, the space group is P321, and the unit cell parameters are as follows: a = b = 6.5858 (4) + / -0.02, c = 7.8163 (6) + / -0.02, alpha = beta = 90 degrees, gamma = 120 degrees and Z = 1. The crystal is grown by adopting a vacuum high-temperature solution method, a room-temperature solution method or a hydrothermal method, and the ultraviolet transmission cut-off edge of the crystal is lower than 190 nm. The nonlinear optical effect of the crystal is about 2.5 times of that of KH2PO4 (KDP), and the shortest I-type phase matching wavelength is 175.5 nm. The crystal has the advantages of simple preparation method, low toxicity of used initial raw materials, small harm to human bodies, stable physical and chemical properties, uniaxial crystal, easiness in application and the like. The method can be widely applied to nonlinear optical devices such as ultraviolet and deep ultraviolet all-solid-state lasers, optical parametric oscillators and the like.

The invention provides a broadband tunable light emitting chip based on an asymmetric multi-quantum well technology and a preparation method, the tunable light emitting chip comprises a plurality of laser units distributed in columns, and each column of laser units comprises a plurality of lasers connected in series; the laser units achieve single-waveguide laser output through cascade Y waveguide combination, each laser comprises an asymmetric multi-quantum well layer and a grating layer, the thickness of each quantum well is gradually decreased from top to bottom, and a grating is located on the surface of the upper limiting layer. The tunable lasers connected in series and in parallel are adopted, and single-waveguide laser output is achieved through cascade Y waveguide combination; the asymmetric multiple quantum wells are arranged, so that the overall tunable range of the laser can be widened; a sampling grating is manufactured through a reconstruction equivalent chirp technology to select a lasing wavelength, and pi phase shift is introduced to carry out phase matching so as to ensure single wavelength output; according to the invention, gains can be provided for a plurality of laser units, the density of monolithic integration is improved, the transmission capacity is increased, and the single-mode yield is improved.

The invention provides a terahertz generation chip based on a thin film lithium niobate platform and a preparation method of the terahertz generation chip, and belongs to the field of integrated optics and microwave photons. According to the chip, terahertz waves are generated by utilizing a second-order nonlinear difference frequency effect on thin-film lithium niobate, and phase matching of an optical field and a terahertz field is realized through parameter design of an optical waveguide structure of the lithium niobate layer and a terahertz waveguide structure of the silicon layer. The device comprises a nonlinear action layer, an isolation layer, a terahertz transmission layer and a substrate layer. Firstly, a silicon layer is thinned through a mechanical polishing process, then polytetrafluoroethylene is bonded to the bottom of the thinned silicon layer, finally, waveguide structure etching is carried out, a specific waveguide shape and size are constructed, and efficient generation and transmission of terahertz waves are achieved. The method has strong practical operability, and has wide application prospects in the fields of terahertz communication, spectroscopy, remote sensing and the like.

A lithium niobate (LN) external cavity includes a Vernier mirror structure which includes two or more microresonators where: one or more or all of the Vernier microresonators are tuned by the electro-optic Pockels effect of LN, with tuning electrodes integrated with the resonators, and one of the Vernier microresonators could be tuned by the thermo-optic effect, with a local heater integrated with the resonator. One or more or all of the Vernier microresonators include a section or the whole resonator that is periodically poled to achieve quasi-phase matching for nonlinear frequency conversion directly inside the laser cavity. The lithium niobate (LN) external cavity also includes a phase shifter whose phase is tuned by the electro-optic Pockels effect of LN. A Sagnac loop mirror is placed at the end of the device to function as the output end mirror of the laser cavity.

A system for frequency conversion of laser pump radiation includes an optical element for frequency conversion of lasers or laser beams with power scalability. The element has a nonlinear birefringent, thin plate crystal. A pump beam generates frequency-shifted radiation. Phase or quasi-phase matching conditions are in the crystal between beams. Frontside and backside of the crystal have high-reflective and partially-reflective coatings, obtaining intensity enhancement of the pump and frequency-converted radiation, and maintaining relative phase delay between beams, maximizing conversion efficiency. The crystal contacts a heat sink through the high-reflective coating, minimizing temperature inhomogeneity in the crystal. Intrinsic longitudinal heat flow provides power scalability. The element, used intra-cavity, acts as a wavelength-selective component forcing laser operation on resonance of the element, maximizing frequency conversion. The wavelength selectivity allows single-frequency operation of high-power lasers with intra-cavity frequency conversion.

Examples are disclosed of systems including a two-pumps based entanglement generation source enabling entanglement-assisted communication over turbulent free-space optical (FSO) channels. In some examples, it is proposed to employ two S- / L-band pumps, satisfying PPLN-waveguide quasi-phase-matching condition over entire C-band, providing needed flexibility in wavelength-selection for signal-idler photon pairs. By performing phase-conjugation over idler photons, the present disclosure demonstrates entanglement-assisted communication at both 1Gb / s and 10Gb / s in 1.5km FSO link operated in beyond strong turbulence regime.

A system for a waveguide-based diplexer (wavelength multiplexer / demultiplexer) and polarizer having ultra-broad bandwidth, a compact footprint, low losses, fabrication robustness and a simple single etch fabrication process. The polarizer (TE-pass) is based on the phase-matched coupling of the unwanted TM0 mode in an input waveguide to the TM1 mode in a tapered directional coupler (DC), which is then guided through a low-loss bend (180-degree) and scattered in a terminator section with low back reflections. An S-bend is added before the output for filtering any residual TM0mode present in the input waveguide. The diplexer is based on a multimode interference (MMI) coupler and is designed at the first imaging length for 1550 nm wavelength resulting in a compact MMI length. In order to improve the extinction ratio, the output ports are made asymmetric in width.

This invention belongs to the field of wavelength division multiplexing optical communication technology, specifically relating to a reverse coupler based on a thin-film lithium niobate platform. The reverse coupler includes: a lithium niobate-on-insulator substrate, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and a coupling region. The first and second waveguides are disposed in the device layer of the lithium niobate-on-insulator substrate. The first and second waveguides are arranged in parallel along the light propagation direction within the coupling region. A periodic grating perturbation structure is disposed on the first and / or second waveguides. This reverse coupler utilizes the grating perturbation structure to ensure that the modes of the two waveguides satisfy the phase matching condition. The optical signal input to one waveguide is reverse-coupled to the falling port of the other waveguide. Utilizing the large photoelectric coefficient of lithium niobate material, this reverse coupler can tune its spectrum under specific conditions by applying a voltage.

The invention discloses an on-chip super-continuum spectrum light source based on a cascaded polarized ferroelectric material and a design method thereof. The pump light source is used for providing pump light; the pump light enters the super-continuum spectrum generation waveguide; the super-continuum spectrum generation waveguide meets the requirements that the group velocity dispersion is close to 0 under the wavelength of the pump light, the group velocity mismatch of the wavelength of the pump light and the wavelength of the frequency doubling light is close to 0, and the polarization period of the super-continuum spectrum generation waveguide meets the phase matching of frequency doubling. The polarization period of the super-continuum spectrum expansion waveguide changes along the propagation direction, and the super-continuum spectrum expansion waveguide outputs a super-continuum spectrum; the conical transition waveguide is used for connecting the super-continuum spectrum generation waveguide and the super-continuum spectrum expansion waveguide and eliminating mode mismatch between the super-continuum spectrum generation waveguide and the super-continuum spectrum expansion waveguide. The system has the advantages of low cost, high integration level and wide spectrum coverage, and is suitable for the fields of environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, spectral analysis and the like.

A device and method for detecting the deuterium doping concentration of a deuterium-doped KDP crystal are disclosed. The device comprises a fundamental frequency laser, a second-harmonic deuterium-doped KDP crystal arranged sequentially along the laser output direction of the fundamental frequency laser, a frequency doubling adjuster acting on the second-harmonic deuterium-doped KDP crystal, a first second-harmonic laser color separator, a second second-harmonic laser color separator, and an energy meter. The angle at which two fundamental frequency beams of different wavelengths output from the fundamental frequency laser are incident on the second-harmonic deuterium-doped KDP crystal is controlled by the frequency doubling adjuster. Based on the reading of the energy meter, the second-harmonic deuterium-doped KDP crystal is adjusted to a position corresponding to the phase matching angle. The deuterium doping concentration of the second-harmonic deuterium-doped KDP crystal is obtained by comparing the difference in the measured phase matching angles of the two laser beams with the difference in the phase matching angle calculated according to an empirical formula and the relationship between the phase matching angle difference and the deuterium doping concentration of the crystal. This invention has the advantages of stable device and simple and accurate detection method.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nonlinear optical crystals, and particularly relates to a zeolite-like structure nitrogen oxide silicate nonlinear optical crystal and a preparation method and application thereof, the chemical general formula of the crystal is Ba3Si3N5OCl, the crystal belongs to a hexagonal system, the cell parameters of the crystal are as follows: a is 9.5147 (6), c is 5.5002 (4), V is 431.22 (6) 3, Z is 2, the space group is P-62c, and the crystal has a non-centrosymmetric structure. The Ba3Si3N5OCl crystal provided by the invention is used as a novel zeolite-like structure nitrogen oxide silicate, successfully integrates nonlinear optical activity and phase matching capability, can generate frequency doubling response which is about 0.2 times of KDP (potassium dihydrogen phosphate) under 1064 nm laser pumping, and can realize phase matching, so that the Ba3Si3N5OCl crystal becomes a nonlinear optical material with practical device application potential.

To achieve high-power single transverse mode laser, we here propose a supersymmetry (SUSY)-based triple-ridge waveguide semiconductor laser structure, which is composed of an electrically pumped main broad-ridge waveguide located in the middle and a pair of lossy auxiliary partner waveguides. The auxiliary partner waveguides are designed to provide dissipative modes that can phase match and couple with the higher-order modes in the main waveguide. By appropriately manipulating the gain-loss discrimination of the modes in the laser cavity, one can effectively suppress all the undesired higher-order transverse modes while keeping the fundamental one almost unaffected, thereby ensuring stable single-mode operation with a larger emitting aperture and accordingly a higher output power than a conventional single-transverse-mode ridge waveguide diode laser.

The present application relates to a kind of preparation methods of large aperture ultraviolet third harmonic generator, the method is first using Maker stripe method to measure the frequency doubling coefficient of guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal, obtain 2 non-zero effective frequency doubling coefficient;Again, the minimum deflection angle method is used to determine the principal refractive index of guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal from 253nm-2325nm between 11 wavelengths, fitting Sellmeier equation;According to Sellmeier equation, the computer program is calculated, and the phase matching curve of the guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal type I or type I is calculated, then the phase matching point of the guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal is determined by combining frequency doubling coefficient;Then, according to the phase matching direction, guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal is cut, and two light transmitting surfaces are polished and coated with dielectric film to obtain the guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal third harmonic generator;The large aperture ultraviolet third harmonic generator of the guanidinium tetrafluoroborate crystal is used to generate high-power third harmonic laser output, and has good practical application value in the field of laser technology, especially in high-power laser device.

An optical device (200, 300) comprising the following: a substrate (201,301); a heterogeneous metal oxide semiconductor MOS capacitor formed on the substrate, wherein the MOS capacitor comprises: an optical fiber (202, 302); a first cathode (204, 304) comprising a first material in which an optical waveguide is formed; an anode (206, 306) formed in the optical waveguide, the anode comprising a second material that differs from the first material; and a dielectric (218, 318) arranged between the first cathode and the anode, wherein the dielectric comprises an oxide of the first material and an oxide of the second material, where the heterogeneous MOS capacitor is defined between the anode and the first cathode; and a semiconductor component layer that is arranged between the substrate and the heterogeneous MOS capacitor and is formed in the optical waveguide, characterized by the fact that The semiconductor component layer and the anode form a resistance element that is integrated into the optical waveguide.

The invention provides a lateral coupling drift tube linear accelerator based on a modular drift tube structure, and the linear accelerator comprises a main acceleration cavity chain which is formed by sequentially arranging a plurality of acceleration cavities in a straight line, each acceleration cavity is internally provided with a plurality of drift tubes, and the structures and sizes of the plurality of drift tubes arranged in a single acceleration cavity are the same; the gaps among the plurality of drift tubes arranged in the single acceleration cavity are equal; the adjacent accelerating cavities are communicated through beam hole channels along the central axis of the main accelerating cavity chain; the permanent magnet type quadrupole lenses are arranged on the beam hole channels; and the side coupling cavities are formed in the off-axis positions between every two adjacent acceleration cavities, and the side coupling cavities are connected with the adjacent acceleration cavities through the coupling holes. The accelerator adopts a phase matching thought, so that the lengths of all the acceleration units in the same acceleration cavity and the structural sizes of the drift tubes are completely the same, the modular production and array installation of the drift tube structure are realized, and the manufacturing and testing work of the SCDTL is greatly simplified.

This application discloses an inorganic compound crystal, its preparation method, and its applications. The inorganic compound crystal has the chemical formula Ga2(OH)(TeO3)(Te2O5)Br, belongs to the orthorhombic crystal system, has a space group of Pca21, and unit cell parameters α=β=γ=90°, Z=4. The inorganic compound crystal is prepared using a hydrothermal method. Under 1064nm laser irradiation, the powder frequency doubling intensity of the inorganic compound crystal Ga2(OH)(TeO3)(Te2O5)Br is 9.8 times that of KH2PO4(KDP), and phase matching can be achieved, indicating its significant potential application value as a nonlinear optical material.

The invention discloses an inorganic compound crystal as well as a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the field of crystal materials. The chemical formula of the inorganic compound crystal is Na2 [B4IO9] (IO3). The powder frequency doubling intensity of the inorganic compound crystal under 1064nm laser irradiation is 7.8 times that of KH2PO4 (KDP), phase matching can be realized, and the inorganic compound crystal has a relatively high laser damage threshold; the inorganic compound crystal has high transmittance in the spectral range of 243 nm to 2500 nm, and the ultraviolet absorption cutoff wavelength is about 243 nm; and the Na2 [B4IO9] (IO3) can be well permeated in the range of 0.24 to 7.33 microns. The inorganic compound crystal can be stabilized to 435 DEG C, and has excellent thermal stability.

This system is directed to an orbital angular momentum generator which can include an AOD; a beam shaping optic assembly; a log-polar optic; a Fourier lens; and, wherein the orbital angular momentum generator is configured to produce pulse shaping according to the application of a quadratic waveform chirp that corresponds to one or more OAM modes. The system can include an ultrashort pulsed laser; a log-spiral transformation assembly; an AOD; an ellipse generator; a λ / 2 plate; and, wherein the optical system is configured to provide for multiple coherent spiral beams with control of amplitude and relative phase. The system can include an ultraviolet orbital angular momentum generator comprising: a femtosecond pulsed laser; a crystal configured to provide a collinear phase-matching; and can provide a UV OAM source for imaging with high resolution and quantum information. The AOD can be replaced with a scanning mirror and configured to add a linear phase gradient.