  In recent years, new coronagraphic schemes have been proposed, the most
promising being the optical vortex phase mask coronagraphs. In our work, a new
scheme of broadband optical scalar vortex coronagraph is proposed and
characterized experimentally in the laboratory. Our setup employs a pair of
computer generated phase gratings (one of them containing a singularity) to
control the chromatic dispersion of phase plates and achieves a constant
peak-to-peak attenuation below 1:1000 over a bandwidth of 120 nm centered at
700 nm. An inner working angle of $\lambda$/D is demonstrated along with a raw
contrast of 11.5\,magnitudes at 2$\lambda$/D. A more compact setup achieves a
peak-to-peak attenuation below 1:1000 over a bandwidth of 60 nm with the other
results remaining the same.
