[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 3, No. 4 (1996) 299-300]
Are Bessel Beams Supportable in Graded-Index Media?
Kazuya HAYATA
Department of Social Information, Sapporo Gakuin University, Ebetsu 069, Japan
(Received April 19, 1996; Accepted June 10, 1996)
We disprove the existence of a family of Bessel beams [J. Durnin, J.J. Miceli, Jr. and J.H. Eberly: Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 (1987) 1499] for any realistic graded-index media.
Key words : Bessel beam, nondiffracting beam, graded-index medium