2003/07/01 by Zdenek Bouchal, Zdeněk Bouchal · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Diffraction #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #Electromagnetic radiation #Focus (optics) #Optical Coatings and Gratings #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Physical optics #Realization (probability) #Term (time) #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1023/a:1024802801048
24 pages, 22 figures
openalex publication_date 2003/07/01 · arxiv created 2003/09/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The controversial term "nondiffracting beam" was introduced into optics by Durnin in 1987. Discussions related to that term revived interest in problems of the light diffraction and resulted in an appearance of the new research direction of the classical optics dealing with the localized transfer of electromagnetic energy. In the paper, the physical concept of the nondiffracting propagation is presented and the basic properties of the nondiffracting beams are reviewed. Attention is also focused to the experimental realization and to applications of the nondiffracting beams.