Bessel beam

Bessel beam - radiation whose amplitude is described by a Bessel function of the first kind. Article “Bessel beam” in English Wikipedia has 53.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 36 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Bessel beam”, its content was written by 47 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in English Wikipedia and cited 59 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #53904 in March 2011
• Global: #106340 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #72297 in November 2011
• Global: #125960 in November 2011

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bessel beam		53.7324
2	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		48.0487
3	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		36.0061
4	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		26.2087
5	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		22.4825
6	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		16.6557
7	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		11.5575
8	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		3.523
9	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		0.1874

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bessel beam" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bessel beam		380 386
2	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		46 007
3	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		43 660
4	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		20 364
5	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		13 286
6	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		3 636
7	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		1 082
8	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		678
9	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		189

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bessel beam" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bessel beam		1 366
2	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		282
3	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		209
4	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		119
5	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		46
6	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		11
7	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		6
8	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		6
9	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bessel beam" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bessel beam		47
2	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		25
3	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		7
4	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		7
5	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		6
6	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		6
7	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		5
8	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		4
9	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		3

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bessel beam" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		0
2	English (en) Bessel beam		0
3	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		0
4	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		0
5	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		0
6	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		0
7	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		0
8	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		0
9	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bessel beam" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bessel beam		24
2	German (de) Bessel-Strahl		15
3	Japanese (ja) ベッセルビーム		6
4	Russian (ru) Луч Бесселя		5
5	Lithuanian (lt) Beselio pluoštas		4
6	French (fr) Faisceau de Bessel		2
7	Estonian (et) Besseli kimp		1
8	Armenian (hy) Բեսելի ճառագայթ		1
9	Swedish (sv) Besselstråle		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Bessel-Strahl
en	English Bessel beam
et	Estonian Besseli kimp
fr	French Faisceau de Bessel
hy	Armenian Բեսելի ճառագայթ
ja	Japanese ベッセルビーム
lt	Lithuanian Beselio pluoštas
ru	Russian Луч Бесселя
sv	Swedish Besselstråle

Best Rank

English: #72297 11.2011

Global: #125960 11.2011

Best Rank

English: #53904 03.2011

Global: #106340 03.2011

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