Authors: Jonathan Leach, Graham M. Gibson, Miles J. Padgett, Elric Esposito, Gail McConnell, Amanda J. Wright, and John M. Girkin
Abstract: “We report the creation of white-light, achromatic Bessel beams using a spatial light modulator and a prism to compensate for the dispersion. Unlike the Bessel beam created by a refractive axicon, this achromatic beam has a radial wavevector and hence an intensity cross-section which is independent of wavelength. The technique also lends itself to the generation of higher order Bessel beams with an on-axis optical vortex and associated orbital angular momentum.”
Open Access
Publication: Optics Express
Issue/Year: Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 12, pp. 5581-5587, 2006