Scattering of a Bessel Beam by a Resistive Disc

Abstract

Bessel beam has two important advantages that make it preferable for the illumination process of biological samples in microscopy. These are the properties of non-diffraction and self-healing. In this paper, the interaction of the zeroth order Bessel beam with a resistive disc, which models a cell or tissue, is investigated by using the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction. The geometrical optics and diffracted waves are evaluated. The scattering characteristics of the beam and the property of self-healing are studied numerically for different values of the surface resistivity. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.