Generation of a beam with a dark focus surrounded by regions of higher intensity: the optical bottle beam

Jochen Arlt; MJ Padgett

doi:10.1364/OL.25.000191

Generation of a beam with a dark focus surrounded by regions of higher intensity: the optical bottle beam

Jochen Arlt, MJ Padgett

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

A computer-generated hologram is used to form an optical beam with a localized intensity null at its focus. The beam is a superposition of two Laguerre-Gaussian modes that are phased so that they interfere destructively to give a beam focus that is surrounded in all directions by regions of higher intensity. Beams of this kind will have applications in the optical trapping of macroscopic objects or atoms; hence the term optical bottle beam. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 140.3300, 090.1760.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-193
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000191
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2000

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HOLOGRAMS
LASER

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Generation of a beam with a dark focus surrounded by regions of higher intensity: the optical bottle beam

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