Generation of achromatic Bessel beams using a compensated spatial light modulator.

نویسندگان

  • Jonathan Leach
  • Graham M Gibson
  • Miles J Padgett
  • Elric Esposito
  • Gail McConnell
  • Amanda J Wright
  • John M Girkin
چکیده

We report the creation of white-light, achromatic Bessel beams using a spatial light modulator and a prism to compensate for the dispersion. Unlike the Bessel beam created by a refractive axicon, this achromatic beam has a radial wavevector and hence an intensity cross-section which is independent of wavelength. The technique also lends itself to the generation of higher order Bessel beams with an on-axis optical vortex and associated orbital angular momentum.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Optics express

دوره 14 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006