Dudley, Angela LLi, YMhlanga, TEscuti, MForbes, A2014-06-172014-06-172013-09Dudley, A, Li, Y, Mhlanga, T, Escuti, M and Forbes, A. 2013. Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams. Optics letter, vol. 38(17), pp 3429-34320146-9592http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-38-17-3429http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7459Copyright: 2013 Optical Society of America. This is an Open Access journal. The journal authorizes the publication of the information herewith contained. Published in Optics letter, vol. 38(17), pp 3429-3432Nondiffracting vector Bessel beams are of considerable interest due to their nondiffracting nature and unique high-numerical-aperture focusing properties. Here we demonstrate their creation by a simple procedure requiring only a spatial light modulator and an azimuthally varying birefringent plate, known as a q-plate. We extend our control of both the geometric and dynamic phases to perform a polarization and modal decomposition on the vector field. We study both single-charged Bessel beams as well as superpositions and find good agreement with theory. Since we are able to encode nondiffracting modes with circular polarizations possessing different orbital angular momenta, we suggest these modes will be of interest in optical trapping, microscopy, and optical communication.enNondiffracting vector Bessel beamsOptical communicationHigh-numerical-aperturePolarizationModal decompositionBessel beamsArticleDudley, A. L., Li, Y., Mhlanga, T., Escuti, M., & Forbes, A. (2013). Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7459Dudley, Angela L, Y Li, T Mhlanga, M Escuti, and A Forbes "Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams." (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7459Dudley AL, Li Y, Mhlanga T, Escuti M, Forbes A. Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7459.TY - Article AU - Dudley, Angela L AU - Li, Y AU - Mhlanga, T AU - Escuti, M AU - Forbes, A AB - Nondiffracting vector Bessel beams are of considerable interest due to their nondiffracting nature and unique high-numerical-aperture focusing properties. Here we demonstrate their creation by a simple procedure requiring only a spatial light modulator and an azimuthally varying birefringent plate, known as a q-plate. We extend our control of both the geometric and dynamic phases to perform a polarization and modal decomposition on the vector field. We study both single-charged Bessel beams as well as superpositions and find good agreement with theory. Since we are able to encode nondiffracting modes with circular polarizations possessing different orbital angular momenta, we suggest these modes will be of interest in optical trapping, microscopy, and optical communication. DA - 2013-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Nondiffracting vector Bessel beams KW - Optical communication KW - High-numerical-aperture KW - Polarization KW - Modal decomposition KW - Bessel beams LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2013 SM - 0146-9592 T1 - Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams TI - Generating and measuring nondiffracting vector Bessel beams UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7459 ER -