title: Fraunhofer diffraction of the plane wave by a multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate.
abstract: We obtain an analytical expression in the form of a finite sum of plane waves that describes the paraxial scalar Fraunhofer diffraction of a limited plane wave by a multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate (SPP) bounded by a polygonal aperture. For several topological charges of the SPP we numerically obtain the minimal number of SPP sectors for which the RMS between the Fraunhofer diffraction patterns for multilevel and continuous SPP does not exceed 2%.
authors.affiliation: Image Processing Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara State Aerospace University, 151 Molodogvardejskaya, Samara 443001, Russia.
authors.forename: Victor V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kotlyar
authors.forename: Alexey A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kovalev