“…Thus, an optical axis segment, at which the BB formed by a finite phase DOE, preserves its modal character, starts from some z min , needed to form the beam, and ends at <2z max , with z max given by equation (52). In [19,32] it was proposed that the multi-mode BB should be formed by use of a DOE whose transmission function is a linear combination of an axicon and an angular harmonic:…”