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Tunable twin-ring perfect optical vortex beams and their propagation characteristics

Year : 2026

Publisher : Elsevier Ltd

Source Title : Optics and Lasers in Engineering

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Abstract

Perfect Optical Vortex (POV) beams have gained significant attention due to their ability to maintain a constant ring size with increasing topological charge (TC). This property of the POV beam helps to attain a vortex beam with large TC and controllable ring size simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a new simple way to generate twin ring POV (TR-POV) beam by introducing a conical phase into the Bessel phase function. In TR-POV, we can precisely control the transverse cross-section profile, where the ring radius, ring width, and TC of both rings can be assigned arbitrarily, depending on the application. We have experimentally generated these beams and studied their detailed propagation characteristics in free space. Through the interferometric analysis, we have also determined the TCs correspond to both the rings. We believe that the proposed beams can have profound application in various optical domains, such as microscopy, imaging through turbid media, communication, security etc.