Abstract: We generate experimentally optical bottle beams from incoherent double-charge white-light vortices, and show that their parameters can be efficiently controlled by varying the beam focusing conditions.

Keywords: vortex carrying beam; lens-system; particles; atoms; trap; manipulation; diffraction; intensity; coherence

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