%0 Journal Article %A Kundikova, Nataliya D. %A Ryzhkova, A. V. %A Alieva Krasheninnikova, Tatiana %A Calvo Padilla, María Luisa %A Rodrigo Martín-Romo, José Augusto %T Experimental creation of chainlike beams and investigation of their structure %D 2008 %@ 0030-400X %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51039 %X The effect of the Gaussian beam width on the focusing properties of the chainlike Gaussian beam formed upon diffraction of laser radiation on a binary amplitude mask is studied. It is found that a decrease in the Gaussian beam width increases the sizes of focal spots and the focus depth, decreases the intensity in the focuses, and does not affect the focus position. %~