| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N37117/01 |
| Title: |
BESSEL BEAMS AND BESSEL RESONATORS |
| Principal Investigator: |
New, Professor G |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
04 September 2000 |
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03 December 2001 |
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47,571
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We propose to undertake an analytical and numerical study of Bessel beams in general, and Bessel beams resonators in particular.A Bessel Beam (BB) represents the archetypal non-diffracting optical wave, In the simplest picture a BB is formed in the interference between inward and outward going conical waves represented mathematically by Hankel functions. This invites the conjecture ( which we have recently shown to be correct) that an optical cavity formed by one or more conical mirrors will exhibit BB modes. Such a cavity provides the potential basis for a BB laser.We will also investigate the wider properties of non-diffracting beams including pulsed BB and consider potential links with adaptive optics.While the lowest order BB has a central intensity maximu, higher-order modes have a zero on axis and the associated tubes of light have potential application as atom guides in atom optics experiments.
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