Bessel-like beams with z-dependent cone angles

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1966-1973

  Belyi, Vladimir ^a   Forbes, Andrew ^b,c   Kazak, Nikolai ^a   Khilo, Nikolai ^a   Ropot, P ^a  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; AXICONS; BESSEL-GAUSS BEAMS; CONE ANGLE; NONDIFFRACTING;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS;

EID: 76149104590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001966     Document Type: Article

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