Control of the creation of bottle-hollow beam by polarization shaping

We propose a method for generating bottle-hollow (BH) beams by tailoring the polarization state of the incident field in a tightly focused system. An optical BH field can be generated in the vicinity of the focus by tailoring azimuthal and radial polarization indices of the incident field. Calculations show that the length and diameter are mainly affected by the radial polarization index. While for the azimuthal index, it affects the width of the hollow greatly. As a result, an all-optical controlled tunable BH beam is achieved. The generated BH beam may find application in optical tweezers.