Intra-cavity generation of a superposition of Bessel-Gauss beams

Jaime D. Wong-Campos; Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda

doi:10.1117/12.946531

15 October 2012 Intra-cavity generation of a superposition of Bessel-Gauss beams

Jaime D. Wong-Campos, Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda

Proceedings Volume 8490, Laser Beam Shaping XIII; 849009 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946531
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The generation of intra-cavity superpositions of Bessel-Gauss beams in an axicon resonator is studied numerically by means of a genetic algorithm. The coherent superposition of low order modes is induced by introducing crossed wires within the simulated cavity. Two different strategies are shown to be equivalent for the generation of the same superposition of two Bessel-Gauss beams with opposite azimuthal orders. In the first strategy the angle between a pair of cross-wires is varied for mode selection, the second consists on introducing a number of crosswires at equally spaced angles in which the number of wires corresponds exactly to the order of the superposed modes. Our results suggest a direct method for generating experimentally a coherent mode superposition of Bessel-Gauss beams using an axicon-based Bessel-Gauss resonator. These beams are relevant in areas such as optical trapping and micromanipulatio

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Jaime D. Wong-Campos and Raul I. Hernandez-Aranda "Intra-cavity generation of a superposition of Bessel-Gauss beams", Proc. SPIE 8490, Laser Beam Shaping XIII, 849009 (15 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946531

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