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  • Photonics
  • Wave Phenomena

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  • Diffraction-free beams, such as Bessel beams, are crucial for applications requiring stable light propagation.
  • Generating complex diffraction-free beam structures has been challenging, often requiring intricate and static optical elements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and validate a method for generating complex diffraction-free beams with controllable transverse intensity distributions.
  • To demonstrate the advantages of using a primitive-based approach for designing diffractive optical elements (DOEs).

Main Methods:

  • Iterative calculation of primitive spatial spectra for ring spectrum analysis.
  • Optimization of complex transmission functions for DOEs to generate primitive diffraction-free distributions (e.g., square, triangle).
  • Superposition of primitive DOEs with deflecting phases to create multi-order optical elements for complex beam formation.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated complex diffraction-free beams with transverse intensity distributions composed of primitive shapes.
  • Achieved rapid convergence in calculating DOEs for primitive distributions compared to complex ones.
  • Demonstrated experimental confirmation of the numerical results.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed primitive-based superposition method offers an efficient and flexible approach to generating complex diffraction-free beams.
  • The modular design allows for rapid reconfiguration and dynamic control of beam structures using spatial light modulators (SLMs).
  • This technique holds promise for advanced optical manipulation and imaging applications.