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> Original Paper
J.Durnin, "Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams. I. The scalar theory."
JOSA A, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 651-654 (1987) 

> Review in Nature
J. Maddox, "Making Light Spots travel further," Nature 327 p183 (1987).

 

 Nature Review Article

Publications which cite my original paper on Non-Diffracting Beams:

Propagation-invariant wave fields with finite energy
   JOSA A, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, pg. 294 (2000).

Marginal phase correction of truncated Bessel beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 17, Iss. 6, pg. 1059 (2000).

Diffraction-free nature of schlieren sound-field images in isotropic media
   JOSA A, Vol. 11, Iss. 10, pg. 2657 (1994).

Modified Bessel nondiffracting beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 11, Iss. 12, pg. 3224 (1994).

Nondiffracting array generation using an N-wave interferometer
   JOSA A, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, pg. 293 (1999).

Approximate description for Bessel, Bessel-Gauss, and Gaussian beams with finite aperture
   JOSA A, Vol. 16, Iss. 6, pg. 1286 (1999).

Analytic expression for Fresnel diffraction
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 3, pg. 684 (1998).

Evanescent Bessel beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 5, pg. 1139 (1998).

Generation of nondiffracting beams by diffractive phase elements
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 9, pg. 2362 (1998).

Generalized eikonal approximation. 2. Propagation of stationary electromagnetic waves in linear and nonlinear media
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 10, pg. 2725 (1998).

Axial intensity of apertured Bessel beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 1, pg. 23 (1997).

Generation of a Bessel—Gauss pulse from a moving disk source distribution
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 5, pg. 1087 (1997).

Comparison of two localized wave fields generated from dynamic apertures
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 8, pg. 1804 (1997).

Electromagnetic analysis of nonparaxial Bessel beams generated by diffractive axicons
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 8, pg. 1817 (1997).

Optimal trade-off pupil for the synthesis of nondiffracting beams in free space
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 10, pg. 2748 (1997).

Sinusoidal-Gaussian beams in complex optical systems
   JOSA A, Vol. 14, Iss. 12, pg. 3341 (1997).

Nondiffracting optical fields: some remarks on their analysis and synthesis
   JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 1, pg. 150 (1989).

Propagation invariance and self-imaging in variable-coherence optics
   JOSA A, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, pg. 282 (1991).

Diffraction effects in directed radiation beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 8, Iss. 5, pg. 705.

Comparison of the propagation characteristics of Bessel, Bessel-Gauss, and Gaussian beams diffracted by a circular aperture
   JOSA A, Vol. 8, Iss. 5, pg. 732.

Nondiffracting beam from a spatially filtered Fabry-Perot resonator
   JOSA A, Vol. 9, Iss. 2, pg. 282 (1992).

Closed-form, localized wave solutions in optical fiber waveguides
   JOSA A, Vol. 9, Iss. 6, pg. 937 (1992).

Diffraction characteristics of the azimuthal Bessel-Gauss beam
   JOSA A, Vol. 13, Iss. 5, pg. 962 (1996).

Diffraction length of localized waves generated by dynamic apertures
   JOSA A, Vol. 13, Iss. 8, pg. 1719 (1996).

Differential geometrical methods in the study of optical transmission (scalar theory). I. Static transmission case
   JOSA A, Vol. 12, Iss. 3, pg. 600 (1995).

Differential geometrical methods in the study of optical transmission (scalar theory). II. Time-dependent transmission theory
   JOSA A, Vol. 12, Iss. 3, pg. 607 (1995).

Bessel-beam representation for partially coherent fields
   JOSA A, Vol. 12, Iss. 6, pg. 1324 (1995).

Pseudo-nondiffracting beams generated by radial harmonic functions
   JOSA A, Vol. 12, Iss. 11, pg. 2446 (1995).

Higher-order extrema in two-dimensional wave fields
   JOSA A, Vol. 17, Iss. 3, pg. 434 (2000).

Axially symmetric on-axis flat-top beam
   JOSA A, Vol. 17, Iss. 3, pg. 447 (2000).

Realization of general nondiffracting beams with computer-generated holograms
   JOSA A, Vol. 6, Iss. 11, pg. 1748 (1989).

Design of diffractive phase elements for beam shaping: hybrid approach
   JOSA A, Vol. 18, Iss. 4, pg. 791 (2001).

Properties and diffraction of vector Bessel–Gauss beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 12, pg. 3020 (1998).

Generalized propagation-invariant wave fields
   JOSA A, Vol. 15, Iss. 12, pg. 3039 (1998).

High-efficiency production of propagation-invariant spot arrays
   JOSA A, Vol. 17, Iss. 12, pg. 2208 (2000).

Quasi-diffraction-free beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 18, Iss. 7, pg. 1644 (2001).

Axicon-based Bessel resonator: analytical description and experiment
   JOSA A, Vol. 18, Iss. 8, pg. 1986 (2001).

Spatially resolved small-angle noncollinear interferometric autocorrelation of ultrashort pulses with microaxicon arrays
   JOSA A, Vol. 18, Iss. 11, pg. 2923 (2001).

Ultrashort pulsed Bessel beams and spatially induced group-velocity dispersion
   JOSA A, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, pg. 49 (2002).

Hollow beams of simple polarization for trapping and storing atoms
   JOSA A, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, pg. 116 (2002).

Laguerre-Gauss and Bessel-Gauss beams in uniaxial crystals
   JOSA A, Vol. 19, Iss. 8, pg. 1680 (2002).

Temporal focusing by use of composite X waves
   JOSA A, Vol. 20, Iss. 8, pg. 1658 (2003).

Azimuthal polarization and partial coherence
   JOSA A, Vol. 20, Iss. 10, pg. 1974 (2003).

Bessel–Gauss resonator with spherical output mirror: geometrical- and wave-optics analysis
   JOSA A, Vol. 20, Iss. 11, pg. 2113 (2003).

Evanescent and propagating fields of a strongly focused beam
   JOSA A, Vol. 20, Iss. 12, pg. 2385 (2003).

Transmission through single subwavelength apertures in thin metal films and effects of surface plasmons
   JOSA A, Vol. 21, Iss. 3, pg. 456 (2004).

Generation of partially coherent diffraction-free fields with tunable geometry
   JOSA A, Vol. 21, Iss. 4, pg. 546 (2004).

New generalized Bessel–Gaussian beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 21, Iss. 4, pg. 640 (2004).

Properties of a localized Mathieu pulse
   JOSA A, Vol. 21, Iss. 4, pg. 662 (2004).

Two-dimensional Fourier transform of scaled Dirac delta curves
   JOSA A, Vol. 21, Iss. 9, pg. 1682 (2004).

Helmholtz-Gauss waves
   JOSA A, Vol. 22, Iss. 2, pg. 289 (2005).

Generating Bessel beams by use of localized modes
   JOSA A, Vol. 22, Iss. 5, pg. 992 (2005).

One-dimensional description of cylindrically symmetric laser beams: application to Bessel-type nondiffracting beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 22, Iss. 7, pg. 1274 (2005).

Theory of the unstable Bessel resonator
   JOSA A, Vol. 22, Iss. 9, pg. 1909 (2005).

Nonparaxial fields with maximum joint spatial-directional localization. I. Scalar case
   JOSA A, Vol. 23, Iss. 3, pg. 691 (2006).

Analysis of eigenfields in the axicon-based Bessel-Gauss resonator by the transfer-matrix method
   JOSA A, Vol. 23, Iss. 4, pg. 912 (2006).

Generation of an elliptic hollow beam using Mathieu and Bessel functions
   JOSA A, Vol. 23, Iss. 9, pg. 2278 (2006).

Negative propagation of vector Bessel beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 24, Iss. 9, pg. 2844 (2007).

Propagating free-space nonparaxial beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 24, Iss. 10, pg. 3297 (2007).

Helical Mathieu and parabolic localized pulses
   JOSA A, Vol. 24, Iss. 11, pg. 3449 (2007).

Self-reconstruction property of fractional Bessel beams: comment
   JOSA A, Vol. 26, Iss. 10, pg. 2181 (2009).

Normalization of optical Weber waves and Weber-Gauss beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 2, pg. 327 (2010).

Beam shaping using Gaussian beam modes
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 2, pg. 350 (2010).

Apertured paraxial Bessel beams
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 3, pg. 390 (2010).

Diffraction-free beams in thin films
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 3, pg. 663 (2010).

Bessel beam transformation by anisotropic crystals
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 8, pg. 1828 (2010).

Scintillation of pseudo-Bessel correlated beams in atmospheric turbulence
   JOSA A, Vol. 27, Iss. 12, pg. 2621 (2010).

Harmonic generation in gases by use of Bessel–Gauss laser beams
   JOSA B, Vol. 17, Iss. 1, pg. 34 (2000).

Two-dimensional periodic structures in a nonlinear resonator
   JOSA B, Vol. 7, Iss. 6, pg. 1045 (1990).

Spatially cumulative phenomena and output patterns in optical parametric oscillators and generators pumped by conical beams
   JOSA B, Vol. 16, Iss. 9, pg. 1566 (1999).

Phase-front transformation of a first-order Bessel beam in Raman-resonant four-wave mixing
   JOSA B, Vol. 18, Iss. 4, pg. 497 (2001).

Microstructuring transparent materials by use of nondiffracting ultrashort pulse beams generated by diffractive optics
   JOSA B, Vol. 20, Iss. 12, pg. 2562 (2003).

Laser beams with embedded vortices: tools for atom optics
   JOSA B, Vol. 23, Iss. 1, pg. 94 (2006).

Creation of a narrow Bessel-like laser beam using a nematic liquid crystal
   JOSA B, Vol. 23, Iss. 4, pg. 637 (2006).

Beam quality improvement at Raman conversion of multimode conical beam
   JOSA B, Vol. 23, Iss. 6, pg. 1109 (2006).

Phase-conjugating resonator for Bessel-Gauss beams
   JOSA B, Vol. 23, Iss. 8, pg. 1574 (2006).

Diffraction-free beams with elliptic Bessel envelope in periodic media
   JOSA B, Vol. 25, Iss. 1, pg. 1 (2008).

Limited-diffraction light propagation with axicon-shape photonic crystals
   JOSA B, Vol. 26, Iss. 5, pg. 981 (2009).

Diffraction-free propagation of subwavelength light beams in layered media
   JOSA B, Vol. 27, Iss. 7, pg. 1435 (2010).

Conversion of bright nondiffracting beams into dark nondiffracting beams by use of the topological properties of polarized light
   Optics Letters, Vol. 25, Iss. 5, pg. 284 (2000).

Optimal synthesis of three-dimensional complex amplitude distributions
   Optics Letters, Vol. 25, Iss. 6, pg. 363 (2000).

Propagation-invariant spot arrays
   Optics Letters, Vol. 23, Iss. 16, pg. 1247 (1998).

Generation of achromatic and propagation-invariant spot arrays by use of continuously self-imaging gratings
   Optics Letters, Vol. 26, Iss. 7, pg. 411 (2001).

Higher-order stimulated Brillouin scattering with nondiffracting beams
   Optics Letters, Vol. 26, Iss. 8, pg. 530 (2001).

Controlled spatial shaping of nondiffracting patterns and arrays
   Optics Letters, Vol. 27, Iss. 16, pg. 1376 (2002).

Focus wave modes in optical parametric generators
   Optics Letters, Vol. 27, Iss. 23, pg. 2103 (2002).

Localized optical subcycle pulses in dispersive media
   Optics Letters, Vol. 27, Iss. 24, pg. 2167 (2002).

Generation of nondiffracting Bessel beams by use of a spatial light modulator
   Optics Letters, Vol. 28, Iss. 22, pg. 2183 (2003).

Parabolic nondiffracting optical wave fields
   Optics Letters, Vol. 29, Iss. 1, pg. 44 (2004).

Reflection and transmission of strongly focused vector beams at a dielectric interface
   Optics Letters, Vol. 29, Iss. 5, pg. 421 (2004).

Creation of a three-dimensional optical chain for controllable particle delivery
   Optics Letters, Vol. 30, Iss. 8, pg. 848 (2005).

Nondiffracting beams in periodic media
   Optics Letters, Vol. 30, Iss. 19, pg. 2611 (2005).

Generation of an elliptic Bessel beam
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 1, pg. 38 (2006).

Generation of hollow beams by using a binary spatial light modulator
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 7, pg. 864 (2006).

Evanescent Bessel beam generation via surface plasmon resonance excitation by a radially polarized beam
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 11, pg. 1726 (2006).

Fresnel axicon
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 12, pg. 1890 (2006).

Multiscale Bessel beams generated by a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 21, pg. 3155 (2006).

X-wave bullets with negative group velocity in vacuum
   Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Iss. 23, pg. 3532 (2006).

Nondiffracting random intensity patterns
   Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Iss. 3, pg. 298 (2007).

Accelerating finite energy Airy beams
   Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Iss. 8, pg. 979 (2007).

Observation of superluminal wave-front propagation at the shadow area behind an opaque disk
   Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Iss. 13, pg. 1830 (2007).

Solid immersion axicon: maximizing nondiffracting or Bessel beam resolution
   Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Iss. 15, pg. 2161 (2007).

Hypergeometric-Gaussian modes
   Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Iss. 21, pg. 3053 (2007).

Demonstration of image-zooming capability for diffractive axicons
   Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Iss. 4, pg. 366 (2008).

Quantifying the paraxiality for laser beams from the M2 factor
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 3, pg. 340 (2009).

Generation of Bessel beams using a terahertz quantum cascade laser
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 7, pg. 1030 (2009).

Localized surface plasmon microscope with an illumination system employing a radially polarized zeroth-order Bessel beam
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 8, pg. 1180 (2009).

Efficient generation of an arbitrary nondiffracting Bessel beam employing its phase modulation
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 9, pg. 1456 (2009).

Absorption-free beam generated by a phase-engineered optical element
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 10, pg. 1528 (2009).

Compact all-fiber Bessel beam generator based on hollow optical fiber combined with a hybrid polymer fiber lens
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 19, pg. 2973 (2009).

Accelerating beams
   Optics Letters, Vol. 34, Iss. 24, pg. 3791 (2009).

Analytical partial wave expansion of vector Bessel beam and its application to optical binding
   Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Iss. 10, pg. 1674 (2010).

Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts of a nondiffracting Bessel beam
   Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Iss. 4, pg. 543 (2011).

General vectorial decomposition of electromagnetic fields with application to propagation-invariant and rotating fields
   Optics Express, Vol. 10, Iss. 18, pg. 949 (2002).

Optical guiding of microscopic particles in femtosecond and continuous wave Bessel light beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 12, Iss. 11, pg. 2560 (2004).

Optical tests with Bessel beam interferometry
   Optics Express, Vol. 12, Iss. 24, pg. 5887 (2004).

Observation of parabolic nondiffracting optical fields
   Optics Express, Vol. 13, Iss. 7, pg. 2364 (2005).

Diffraction-suppressed high-resolution imaging through metallodielectric nanofilms
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 1, pg. 216 (2006).

Observation of light localization in modulated Bessel optical lattices
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 7, pg. 2825 (2006).

Hermite-Bessel beams and the geometrical representation of nondiffracting beams with orbital angular momentum
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 11, pg. 4577 (2006).

A unified approach to the analysis of incoherent Doppler lidars
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 17, pg. 7670 (2006).

Generation of Bessel beams by parametric frequency doubling in annular nonlinear periodic structures
   Optics Express, Vol. 15, Iss. 7, pg. 4132 (2007).

Transverse particle dynamics in a Bessel beam
   Optics Express, Vol. 15, Iss. 21, pg. 13972 (2007).

Iterative algorithms for holographic shaping of non-diffracting and self-imaging light beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 6, pg. 2108 (2006).

Photopolymers as vectorial sensors of the electric field
   Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 6, pg. 2203 (2006).

Periodic and quasi-periodic non-diffracting wave fields generated by superposition of multiple Bessel beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 15, Iss. 25, pg. 16748 (2007).

The Poynting vector and angular momentum of Airy beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 16, Iss. 13, pg. 9411 (2008).

High quality quasi-Bessel beam generated by round-tip axicon
   Optics Express, Vol. 16, Iss. 17, pg. 12688 (2008).

Space-time coherence of polychromatic propagation-invariant fields
   Optics Express, Vol. 16, Iss. 25, pg. 20283 (2008).

Improved focusing with Hypergeometric-Gaussian type-II optical modes
   Optics Express, Vol. 16, Iss. 25, pg. 21069 (2008).

Propagation of Bessel-Gaussian beams with optical vortices in turbulent atmosphere
   Optics Express, Vol. 16, Iss. 26, pg. 21315 (2008).

Generation of pseudo-Bessel beams at THz frequencies by use of binary axicons
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, pg. 888 (2009).

Array-based optical nanolithography using optically trapped microlenses
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 5, pg. 3640 (2009).

Revival of femtosecond laser plasma filaments in air by a nanosecond laser
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 14, pg. 11450 (2009).

Transverse-mode dependence of femtosecond filamentation
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 15, pg. 12217 (2009).

Propagation characteristics of Airy beams: dependence upon spatial coherence and wavelength
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 15, pg. 13236 (2009).

Tunable Bessel light modes: engineering the axial propagation
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 18, pg. 15558 (2009).

Spatiotemporal bessel beams: theory and experiments
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 20, pg. 18148 (2009).

Spatio-temporal X-wave
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 21, pg. 18659 (2009).

Airy beams generated by a binary phase element made of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 22, pg. 19365 (2009).

Diffractionless beam in free space with adiabatic changing refractive index in a single mode tapered slab waveguide
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 24, pg. 21723 (2009).

Generating superpositions of higher–order Bessel beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 26, pg. 23389 (2009).

Synthesis of arbitrarily discrete, diffractionless beams using dual-wavelength diffractive objective lens for optical pickup head
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 3, pg. 2534 (2010).

Sub-wavelength focal spot with long depth of focus generated by radially polarized, narrow-width annular beam
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 5, pg. 4518 (2010).

Full vectorial imaging of electromagnetic light at subwavelength scale
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 6, pg. 5809 (2010).

Optical solenoid beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 7, pg. 6988 (2010).

Gouy phase shift in nondiffracting Bessel beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 7, pg. 7108 (2010).

Generation of J0 Bessel beams with controlled spatial coherence features
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 8, pg. 8400 (2010).

Formation of filament and plasma channel by the Bessel incident beam in Ar gas: role of the outer part of the beam
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 12, pg. 12923 (2010).

Longitudinal optical trapping and sizing of aerosol droplets
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 13, pg. 14238 (2010).

Generation of continuously tunable fractional optical orbital angular momentum using internal conical diffraction
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 16, pg. 16480 (2010).

Improving directivity of laser beams by employing the effect of conical refraction in biaxial crystals
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 19, pg. 19566 (2010).

Propagation of Airy-related beams
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 21, pg. 21938 (2010).

Optical breakdown in transparent media with adjustable axial length and location
   Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 24, pg. 24688 (2010).

Optical Eigenmodes; exploiting the quadratic nature of the energy flux and of scattering interactions
   Optics Express, Vol. 19, Iss. 2, pg. 933 (2011).

Numerical study for selective excitation of Mathieu-Gauss modes in end-pumped solid-state laser systems
   Optics Express, Vol. 19, Iss. 4, pg. 3236 (2011).

Computer generated holograms: cylindrical, conical, and helical waves
   Applied Optics, Vol. 26, Iss. 20, pg. 4385 (1987).

Heterodyne detection by using a diffraction-free beam: tilt and offset effects
   Applied Optics, Vol. 31, Iss. 23, pg. 4853 (1992).

Experimental investigation of Bessel beam characteristics
   Applied Optics, Vol. 31, Iss. 15, pg. 2708 (1992).

Imaging properties of axicon in a scanning optical system
   Applied Optics, Vol. 31, Iss. 31, pg. 6653 (1992).

Gaussian-to-Bessel beam transformation using a split refracting system
   Applied Optics, Vol. 32, Iss. 13, pg. 2252 (1993).

High-efficiency diffractionless beams of constant size and intensity
   Applied Optics, Vol. 33, Iss. 31, pg. 7297 (1994).

Optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Bessel beam
   Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 30, pg. 7779 (1997).

Generation of long-range nondiffracting narrow light beams
   Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 16, pg. 3762 (1997).

Implementation of Pseudo-Nondiffracting Beams by Use of Diffractive Phase Elements
   Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Iss. 35, pg. 8219 (1998).

Diffraction Property of an Axicon in Oblique Illumination
   Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Iss. 13, pg. 2563 (1998).

Polarized Pseudonondiffracting Beams Generated by Polarization-Selective Diffractive Phase Elements
   Applied Optics, Vol. 38, Iss. 14, pg. 3089 (1999).

Iterative Algorithm for Determining Optimal Beam Profiles in a Three-Dimensional Space
   Applied Optics, Vol. 38, Iss. 32, pg. 6732 (1999).

Super High Resolution for Long-Range Imaging
   Applied Optics, Vol. 38, Iss. 13, pg. 2795 (1999).

Apodized pixel lenses in compact shadow-casting correlators
   Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Iss. 11, pg. 1951 (1995).

Optical amplification of diffraction-free beams by photorefractive two-wave mixing and its application to laser Doppler velocimetry
   Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Iss. 24, pg. 5485 (1995).

Bessel-beam-pumped tunable distributed-feedback laser
   Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Iss. 33, pg. 7670 (1995).

Propagation of apertured Bessel beams
   Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Iss. 31, pg. 7183 (1995).

Polygon approximation of the fringes of diffractive elements
   Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Iss. 28, pg. 7217 (1997).

Refracting System for Annular Gaussian-to-Bessel Beam Transformation
   Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Iss. 4, pg. 649 (1998).

Two-Element Refracting System for Annular Gaussian-to-Bessel Beam Transformation
   Applied Optics, Vol. 37, Iss. 19, pg. 4206 (1998).

Propagation of anisotropic Bessel-Gaussian Beams: Sidelobe Control, Mode Selection, and Field Depth
   Applied Optics, Vol. 40, Iss. 16, pg. 2709 (2001).

Excitation of Surface-Plasmon Polaritons by Use of a Zeroth-Order Bessel Beam
   Applied Optics, Vol. 43, Iss. 12, pg. 2409 (2004).

Digital Moiré Fringe-Scanning Method for Centering a Circular Fringe Image
   Applied Optics, Vol. 43, Iss. 14, pg. 2833 (2004).

Production of High-Order Bessel Beams with a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
   Applied Optics, Vol. 43, Iss. 26, pg. 5060 (2004).

Conical optics: the solution to confine light
   Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Iss. 11, pg. 1994 (2007).

Nanosecond pulsed Bessel-Gauss beam generated directly from a Nd:YAG axicon-based resonator
   Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Iss. 22, pg. 4943 (2007).

Fiber microaxicons fabricated by a polishing technique for the generation of Bessel-like beams
   Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Iss. 33, pg. 8061 (2007).

Self-healing property of a caustic optical beam
   Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Iss. 34, pg. 8284 (2007).

Optical encoder based on a nondiffractive beam
   Applied Optics, Vol. 47, Iss. 13, pg. 2201 (2008).

Optical analysis of time-averaged multiscale Bessel beams generated by a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens
   Applied Optics, Vol. 47, Iss. 20, pg. 3609 (2008).

Holographic generation of diffraction-free beams
   Applied Optics, Vol. 27, Iss. 19, pg. 3959 (1988).

Finite-size nondiffracting beam from a subwavelength metallic hole with concentric dielectric gratings
   Applied Optics, Vol. 48, Iss. 31, pg. G68 (2009).

General finite-difference time-domain solution of an arbitrary electromagnetic source interaction with an arbitrary dielectric surface
   Applied Optics, Vol. 48, Iss. 31, pg. 6015 (2009).

Propagation of Helmholtz-Gauss beams in weak turbulent atmosphere
   Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, pg. 79 (2008).

Precise measurement of the micron-scale spot of ultrashort laser pulse based on film scanning
   Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 6, Iss. 4, pg. 258 (2008).

Scattering of an unpolarized Bessel beam by spheres
   Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 8, Iss. 12, pg. 1195 (2010).

Finite-size nondiffracting beam from a subwavelength metallic hole with concentric dielectric gratings
   Appl. Opt., Vol. 48, Iss. 31, pg. G77 (2009).

Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam
   Nature, Vol. 419, Iss. 6903, pg. 145 (2002).

Spiral light beams
   Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk, Vol. 174, Iss. 12, pg. 1273 (2004).

Effect of decentering ratio of elements in a variable radiation direction sound source on beam profile
   Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 25, Iss. 5, pg. 386 (2004).

Microfabrication and Drilling Using Diffraction-Free Pulsed Laser Beam Generated with Axicon Lens
   JSME International Journal Series B, Vol. 47, Iss. 3, pg. 497 (2004).

doi:10.1088/0150-536X/22/1/001
   Journal of Optics, Vol. 22, Iss. 1, pg. 3 (1991).

Diffraction intensity distribution of an axicon illuminated by polychromatic light
   Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 9, Iss. 10, pg. 862 (2007).

Are Bessel Beams Supportable in Graded-Index Media?
   Optical Review, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pg. 299 (1996).

Generation of Nearly Diffraction-Free Beams Using a New Optical System
   Optical Review, Vol. 4, Iss. 3, pg. 423 (1997).

Physical principle of experiments with pseudo-nondiffracting fields
   Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Vol. 55, Iss. 10, pg. 1223 (2005).

Generation of controllable nondiffracting beams using multimode optical fibers
   Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Iss. 20, pg. 201102 (2009).

Spectrally partially coherent propagation-invariant fields
   Physical Review A, Vol. 80, Iss. 5 (2009).

Self-reproduction of multimode hermite-gaussian beams
   Technical Physics Letters, Vol. 25, Iss. 6, pg. 489 (1999).

Investigation of ultrashort pulse parameters under SRS temporal compression
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