Image encryption using binary polarization states of light beam

A Shikder, NK Nishchal - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Optical image/data encryption techniques are mostly based on the manipulation of spatial
distributions of light's amplitude, phase, and polarization. Information encoding with phase …

Origin, experimental realization, illustrations, and applications of Bessel beams: a tutorial review

AS Rao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04307, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past 36 years much research has been carried out on Bessel beams (BBs) owing to
their peculiar properties, viz non-diffraction behavior, self-healing nature, possession of well …

Controllable optical vortex array for image encoding

P Kumar, NK Nishchal, A AlFalou - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical cryptosystems mostly use spatial distributions of amplitude, phase, and polarization
of light to encrypt two-dimensional data/image. In this letter, we demonstrate the use of light …

Self-referenced interferometry for single-shot detection of vector-vortex beams

P Kumar, NK Nishchal, T Omatsu, AS Rao - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Vector-vortex (VV) beams are of significant interest for various applications. There have
been substantial efforts toward developing a fast and efficient method for the …

Generating scalar and vector modes of Bessel beams utilizing holographic axicon phase with spatial light modulator

M Baliyan, NK Nishchal - Journal of Optics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an efficient method for the generation of scalar as well as vector modes
of Bessel–Gaussian (BG) beams by utilizing a computer generated phase-only mask …

Binary image encryption with a QR code-encoded optical beam having an array of vortices

A Shikder, SK Rao, P Kumar, NK Nishchal - JOSA A, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, optical information processing has become increasingly important due to its
ability to handle large amounts of data efficiently. Amplitude, phase, spatial frequency …

Generation of structured light beams by dual phase modulation with a single spatial light modulator

M Baliyan, A Shikder, NK Nishchal - Physica Scripta, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise control of amplitude and wavefront of optical fields are prerequisites for many
applications, especially in singular optics. This has led to the increasing efforts for …

Phase response optimization of a liquid crystal spatial light modulator with partially coherent light

P Kumar, NK Nishchal - Applied Optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
This paper demonstrates a method to determine and calibrate the modulation characteristics
of a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) for on-axis phase response with partially …

Generation of V-point polarization singularity using single phase encoding with a spatial light modulator

P Kumar, AS Rao, T Omatsu - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A liquid crystal Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) can be used in various ways to produce vector-
vortices. Superposition of scalar vortices with orthogonal polarization is a common …

Adaptive phase control of a phase-only spatial light modulator using the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor

RM Abdelazeem, MMA Ahmed, S Hassab-Elnaby… - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We present a method to study both static and dynamic phase errors in a phase-only spatial
light modulator (SLM) caused by surface irregularities and an imperfect response of each …