TY - BOOK AU - Arlt,J. AU - Padgett,M.J. TI - Generation of a beam with a dark focus surrounded by regions of higher intensity: The optical bottle beam N2 - A computer-generated hologram is used to form an optical beam with a localized intensity null at its focus. The beam is a superposition of two Laguerre-Gaussian modes that are phased so that they interfere destructively to give a beam focus that is surrounded in all directions by regions of higher intensity. Beams of this kind will have applications in the optical trapping of macroscopic objects or atoms; hence the term optical bottle beam. © 2000 Optical Society of America UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O14TkUv47O4XSv760JZYI7ODi5XW-LK4/view?usp=drivesdk ER -