Abstract
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that optical vortices can be navigated along arbitrary trajectories with a preserving donut-shaped main lobe. The possibility of using such self-accelerating vortex-Bessel-like optical beams for particle manipulation is also illustrated.
© 2013 Optical Society of America
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