Controllable Helico-Conical Beam Generated with the Bored Phase

Abstract

A controllable helico-conical beam is proposed in this paper. The intensity patterns and the local spatial frequency of the controllable helico-conical beams in the focal region are analyzed in detail. The results show that the length of the helico-conical beams can be customized by the variable parameter k, and the angular dimension of the bored spiral trajectory is dependent on the proportion k/l. Moreover, the focal-field energy flow density and orbital angular momentum distributions of the controllable helico-conical beams are also analyzed. The proposed helico-conical beams with controllable lengths can be potentially applied in the field of optical guiding.

Keywords

• helico-conical beam
• bored phase
• optical manipulation
• focal field distributions