Improved focusing with Hypergeometric-Gaussian type-II optical modes

Abstract

We present a novel family of paraxial optical beams having a confluent hypergeometric transverse profile, which we name hypergeometric Gauss modes of type-II (HyGG-II). These modes are eigenmodes of the photon orbital angular momentum and they have the lowest beam divergence at waist of HyGG-II among all known finite power families of paraxial modes. We propose to exploit this feature of HyGG-II modes for generating, after suitable focusing, a "light needle" having record properties in terms of size and aspect ratio, possibly useful for near-field optics applications.

6 pages, 3 figures

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• Hypergeometric-Gaussian Modes

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