Axicon

Axicon

An axicon is a specialized type of lens which has a conical surface. An axicon images a point source into a line "along" the optic axis, or transforms a laser beam into a ring. [cite web|url=http://www.optics.arizona.edu/OPTI696/2005/axicon_Proteep.pdf| author=Proteep Mallik| title=The Axicon| year=2005| accessdate=2007-11-22] It can be used to turn a Gaussian beam into an approximation to a Bessel beam, with greatly reduced diffraction. [cite web|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Eatomtrap/papers/Nature.pdf| author=Kishan Dholakia| coauthors= David McGloin, and Vene Garcés-Chávez| title=Optical micromanipulating using a self-reconstructing light beam| year=2002| accessdate=2007-11-22] [cite journal|author=V. Garcés-Chávez| coauthors= D. McGloin, H. Melville, W. Sibbett and K. Dholakia| title=Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam| journal=Nature| volume= 419| year=2002| url=http://sinclair.ece.uci.edu/Papers/Optics/Orbital%20angular%20momentum/Garces-Chavez%20Nature%20419%20pp145-148%202002%20(Simultaneous%20micromanipulation%20in%20multiple%20planes%20using%20a%20self-reconstructing%20light%20beam).pdf| accessdate=2007-02-06| doi=10.1038/nature01007| pages=145]

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