Abstract
In this Letter, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a new method to generate tunable orbital angular momentum (OAM) by continuously changing the angle of linear polarization of the input light. We use the Fourier series of left- and right-hand projections to prove that the average OAM smoothly varied from to with the angle of LP of input light changing from 0 to , which is fulfilled by an electrical polarization controller.
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