Generation of square arrays of curved Bessel-like beams using continuous-phase encoding gratings

Zhenxian Huang; Linwei Zhu; Junjie Yu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.10.103101

5 October 2017 Generation of square arrays of curved Bessel-like beams using continuous-phase encoding gratings

Zhenxian Huang, Linwei Zhu, Junjie Yu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 10, 103101 (October 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.10.103101

Abstract

We propose a scheme based on a type of continuous-phase encoding grating for the generation of multiple curved Bessel-like beams simultaneously. It is shown that multiple identical curved Bessel-like beams that diverge from a common center can be generated by overlapping a specially designed phase with a continuous-phase grating, and multiple high-order curved Bessel-like beams can be generated when another spiral phase is embedded. As an example, a 5×5 symmetric continuous-phase grating embedded with the special designed phase and a spiral phase is demonstrated based on a spatial light modulator. The experimental results show that 5×5 square arrays of bright- and dark-center curved Bessel-like beams were well generated. The proposed method provides an interesting method for obtaining simultaneously multiple curved Bessel-like beams, which should be of high interest for its promising applications in parallel optical manipulation, optical guiding, laser machining or laser surgery, particle acceleration, etc.

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Zhenxian Huang, Linwei Zhu, and Junjie Yu "Generation of square arrays of curved Bessel-like beams using continuous-phase encoding gratings," Optical Engineering 56(10), 103101 (5 October 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.10.103101

Received: 28 March 2017; Accepted: 13 September 2017; Published: 5 October 2017

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