2023/12/19 by Nicolas Perez, Perez, Nicolas, Daryl Preece +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fern and Epiphyte Biology #Near-Field Optical Microscopy #Optics (physics.optics) #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.12617
openalex publication_date 2023/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Optical bottle beams, characterized by their unique three-dimensional dark core, have garnered substantial interest due to their potential applications across multiple domains of science and technology. This paper delves into the current methods used to create these beams and provides a method to obscure their nodal planes through coaxial non-interfering orthogonally polarized beams to generate bottle beams with enhanced uniformity. Experimental and theoretical results show the enhanced vector bottle beam maintains a smaller, more spherically uniform potential well and interesting quasi-particle polarization characteristics.