Generation of an Adjustable Optical Cage through Focusing an Apertured Bessel-Gaussian Correlated Schell-Model Beam

Abstract

An adjustable optical cage generated by focusing a partially coherent beam with nonconventional correlation function named the Bessel⁻Gaussian correlated Schell-model (BGCSM) beam is investigated in detail. With the help of the generalized Huygens⁻Fresnel integral and complex Gaussian function expansion, the analytical formula of the BGCSM beam passing through an apertured ABCD optical system was derived. Our numerical results show that the generated optical cage can be moderately adjusted by the aperture radius, the spatial coherence width, and the parameter β of the BGCSM beam. Furthermore, the effect of these parameters on the effective beam size and the spectral degree of coherence were also analyzed. The optical cage with adjustable size can be applied for particle trapping and material thermal processing.

Keywords

• partially coherent beam
• correlation function
• focusing
• optical cage