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Abstract
Ultraintense optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum have attracted much attention in strong-field laser physics due to their spiral phase and hollow intensity. This Letter introduces a fully continuous spiral phase plate (FC-SPP) that enables the generation of an ultraintense Laguerre–Gaussian beam. An optimization design method based on the spatial filter technique and chirp-z transform is proposed to match the polishing processing and the tightly focusing performance. To enable its use in high-power laser systems, a large-aperture (200 × 200 mm2) FC-SPP has been fabricated on a fused silica substrate through magnetorheological finishing without the use of mask techniques. The far-field phase pattern and intensity distribution based on vector diffraction calculation were compared with those of ideal spiral phase plate and fabricated FC-SPP, which confirmed the high quality of the output vortex beams and their feasibility for producing high-intensity vortices.
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