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Double helical laser beams based on interfering first-order Bessel beams

Nicholas Barbieri, Matthew Weidman, Gregory Katona, Matthieu Baudelet, Zachary Roth, Eric Johnson, Georgios Siviloglou, Demetrios Christodoulides, and Martin Richardson

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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of a nondiffracting double helical beam using axicons and ±1 vortex phase plates in a common-path interferometric system. Using linear diffraction theory, a simple analytical expression describing beam propagation is shown to agree with both experiments and Fresnel-diffraction-based simulations. Experiments are performed using continuous laser light in addition to ultrafast pulses, demonstrating that the common-path arrangement and the diffraction theory work equally well for both cases.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

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