White laser beams for first time

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

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 ...

Laser-generated ultrasonic beams.

Axicon Gaussian Laser Beams

If a laser beam is to have radial transverse polarization, the transverse electric must vanish on the symmetry axis, which is charge free. However, we can expect a nonzero longitudinal electric field on the axis, considering that the rays of the beam that converge on its focus each has polarization transverse to the ray, and hence the projections of their electric fields onto the axis all have ...

Laser beams and resonators.

This paper is a review of the theory-of laser beams and resonators. It is meant to be tutorial in nature and useful in scope. No attempt is made to be exhaustive in the treatment. Rather, emphasis is placed on formulations and derivations which lead to basic understanding and on results which bear practical significance.

Laser-based Profile Monitor for Electron Beams*

High performance TeV energy electron / positron colliders (LC) are the first machines to require online, non-invasive beam size monitors for micron and submicron for beam phase space optimization. Typical beam densities in the LC are well beyond the threshold density for single pulse melting and vaporization of any material, making conventional wire scanners ineffective. Using a finely focused,...