Observation of the experimental propagation properties of Helmholtz-Gauss beams

Carlos Lopez-Mariscal; Miguel A. Bandres; Julio Cesar Gutierrez-Vega

doi:10.1117/1.2210485

1 June 2006 Observation of the experimental propagation properties of Helmholtz-Gauss beams

Carlos Lopez-Mariscal, Miguel A. Bandres, Julio Cesar Gutierrez-Vega

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 6, 068001 (June 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2210485

Abstract

We present the experimental generation and characterization of each one of the four fundamental families of Helmholtz-Gauss beams: cosine-Gauss beams, stationary and helical Mathieu-Gauss beams, stationary and traveling parabolic-Gauss beams, and Bessel-Gauss beams. Both the transverse intensity profile and power spectrum that each one of the beams exhibits upon propagation is observed and compared to the theoretical model with good quantitative agreement. Emphasis is made on the fact that each of the four families of HzG beams is complete and orthogonal, and thus of fundamental relevance.

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Carlos Lopez-Mariscal, Miguel A. Bandres, and Julio Cesar Gutierrez-Vega "Observation of the experimental propagation properties of Helmholtz-Gauss beams," Optical Engineering 45(6), 068001 (1 June 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2210485

Published: 1 June 2006

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