Holographic shaping of generalized self-reconstructing light beams

✍ Scribed by Laura C. Thomson; Johannes Courtial

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 327 KB
• Volume: 281
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2007.10.110

✦ Synopsis

Bessel beams are an example of self-reconstructing (or self-healing) light beams. This property is useful in optical tweezers. Here we modify the Curtis-Koss-Grier algorithm [J.E. Curtis, B.A. Koss, D.G. Grier, Opt. Commun. 207 (2002) 169], which is frequently used in optical tweezers, to utilize the Fourier-space properties of such light beams for the construction of arbitrary self-reconstructing light beams. We demonstrate the performance of this algorithm using numerical simulations.