The invention relates to a device for realizing superposition and modulation of orbital
angular momentum states of light beams, belonging to the
laser application technical field. The invention consists of a
laser, a
polarizer, a one-fourth wave plate, a
diffraction grating, a Fourier lens, a polarized beam-splitting
prism, two Dove prisms, three holophotes and a pinhole diaphragm, wherein, firstly, an optical
system which takes the
diffraction grating and the Fourier lens as core elements is adopted to generate a plurality of bundles of light beams which are equidistantly distributed on the circumference which takes an
optical axis of incident light as the center and are positioned in different orbital
angular momentum states; secondly, an optical
system which consists of the polarized beam-splitting
prism, the holophotes and the rotatable Dove prisms is adopted to decompose an
optical field into field components which rotate towards the opposite direction; thirdly, the field components are superposed, and superposition of required orbital
angular momentum states is realized and then superposition and modulation of the orbital angular
momentum states are realized. The device for realizing superposition and modulation of the orbital angular
momentum states of the light beams has application value in the
free space optical communication field.