Light Splitting into Three Independent Beams (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Light Splitting into Three Independent Beams

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The incident light can be split into three independent beams, each with different properties -- a conventional beam (right), a beam known as a Bessel beam (center) and an optical vortex (left).

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(Credit: Christina Spägele/Harvard SEAS)

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