An optical needle with elongated transversal profile created using Airy beams for laser processing of glasses

P Šlevas, K Mundrys, O Ulčinas, S Orlov - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent decades, significant progress has been made in the field of laser beam shaping,
driven by the growing demands in both scientific research and industrial applications …

Light Engineering and Silicon Diffractive Optics Assisted Nonparaxial Terahertz Imaging

S Orlov, R Ivaškevičiūtė‐Povilauskienė… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The art of light engineering unveils a world of possibilities through the meticulous
manipulation of photonic properties such as intensity, phase, and polarization. Precision …

Creating an Array of Parallel Vortical Optical Needles

P Šlevas, S Orlov - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
We propose a method for creating parallel Bessel-like vortical optical needles with an
arbitrary axial intensity distribution via the superposition of different cone-angle Bessel …

Generation of diffraction-free Bessel beams based on combined axicons

C Lyu, MR Belić, Y Li, Y Zhang - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Bessel beams are of great interest because of their unique diffraction-free properties and
broad potential applications. In this paper we investigate the generation of diffraction-free …

Liquid crystal anisotropic axicon for the generation of non-diffracting Bessel beams with longitudinally varying polarization

T Jankowski, N Bennis, A Spadlo, JF Algorri… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work we demonstrate a tunable liquid–crystal element of linear phase profile along
the radial coordinate. In combination with a regular refractive axicon, it behaves as an …

Investigation of the Pancharatnam–Berry phase element for the generation of the top-hat beam

P Gotovski, P Šlevas, S Orlov, O Ulčinas… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Within optics, the Pancharatnam–Berry phase enables the design and creation of
various flat special optical elements such as top-hat converters. We present a study on …

Collimating three-axicon zoom system for interferometric Bessel beam side lobe cancellation

M Schnieder, A Niemann, J Hüve, J Klingauf - Optical and Quantum …, 2024 - Springer
Optical Bessel beams are used in numerous applications like fluorescence microscopy,
material processing and optical trapping. These applications require Bessel beams having a …

Theoretical modeling and experimental study in femtosecond Bessel beam ablation of α-quartz

A Gong, G Lin, P Pan, H Sun, S Song, P Ji - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Femtosecond laser processing of dielectric has been widely studied. Nevertheless, a direct
theoretical model for Bessel beam on α-quartz is still essential. The purpose of this study is …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-dimensional tunable arbitrary shape beams with engineered axial profile

Z Lu, M Guo, D Xu, L Xiong, S Duan, Y Yao, H Zhang… - Results in Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Bessel beams, as one type of special light field, would significantly do benefit to several
applications such as light-sheet microscopy, particle manipulation and free-space optical …

Constructing ultra-long focal fields via tightly focused Bessel beams

Z Guo, M Huang, S Liu, P Li, B Wei, J Zhao - Chinese Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We numerically demonstrate that the tight focusing of Bessel beams can generate focal
fields with an ultra-long depth of focus (DOF). The ultra-long focal field can be controlled by …