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Cylindrically polarized Bessel-Gauss beams

Optics 2015-06-23 v2

Abstract

We present a study of radially and azimuthally polarized Bessel-Gauss beams in both the paraxial and nonparaxial regimes. We discuss the validity of the paraxial approximation and the form of the nonparaxial corrections for Bessel-Gauss beams. We show that, independently from the ratio between the Bessel aperture cone angle ϑ0\vartheta_0 and the Gauss beam divergence θ0\theta_0, the nonparaxial corrections are always very small and therefore negligible. Explicit expressions for the nonparaxial vector electric field components are also reported.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1359,
  title  = {Cylindrically polarized Bessel-Gauss beams},
  author = {Daena Madhi and Marco Ornigotti and Andrea Aiello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1359},
  year   = {2015}
}
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