Abstract
A simple technique for determining the topological charge of supercontinuum optical vortices is presented. The spatial dispersion inherent to generating broadband vortices with a single forked grating is compensated with a double-pass arrangement from a single spatial light modulator. The vortex charge is determined by inspecting the diffraction pattern through a triangular aperture. It is shown that the topological charge is constant, and can be consistently measured, across a wide range of colors.
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