Abstract:An optical beam with a dark region surrounded by light in two dimensions, formed as a coherent superposition of mainly two Hermite–Gaussian eigenmodes HG04 and HG08, has been generated in an axially end-pumped Nd:YAG laser with an astigmatic fractionally degenerate semiconfocal cavity with an intracavity obstacle (a needle). Being focused with a lens, the beam has a dark region on its axis, surrounded by high-intensity regions only in z- and y-directions while maintaining Gaussian behavior in the x direction. … Show more
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