Double helical laser beams based on interfering first-order Bessel beams

    Authors

    N. Barbieri; M. Weidman; G. Katona; M. Baudelet; Z. Roth; E. Johnson; G. Siviloglou; D. Christodoulides;M. Richardson

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. A-Opt. Image Sci. Vis.

    Keywords

    DIFFRACTION-FREE BEAMS; NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; OPTICAL; BEAMS; GENERATION; PROPAGATION; ROTATION; AXICON; WAVES; PHASE; Optics

    Abstract

    We demonstrate the generation of a nondiffracting double helical beam using axicons and +/- 1 vortex phase plates in a common-path interferometric system. Using linear diffraction theory, a simple analytical expression describing beam propagation is shown to agree with both experiments and Fresnel-diffraction-based simulations. Experiments are performed using continuous laser light in addition to ultrafast pulses, demonstrating that the common-path arrangement and the diffraction theory work equally well for both cases. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Journal of the Optical Society of America a-Optics Image Science and Vision

    Volume

    28

    Issue/Number

    7

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1462

    Last Page

    1469

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000292456400017

    ISSN

    1084-7529

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