Title

Observation of accelerating airy beams

Authors

Authors

G. A. Siviloglou; J. Broky; A. Dogariu;D. N. Christodoulides

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Phys. Rev. Lett.

Keywords

WAVE-PACKETS; NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; DIFFRACTION; SINGLE; FIELDS; Physics, Multidisciplinary

Abstract

We report the first observation of Airy optical beams. This intriguing class of wave packets, initially predicted by Berry and Balazs in 1979, has been realized in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. As demonstrated in our experiments, these Airy beams can exhibit unusual features such as the ability to remain diffraction-free over long distances while they tend to freely accelerate during propagation.

Journal Title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

99

Issue/Number

21

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.213901

Language

English

First Page

4

WOS Identifier

WOS:000251107500024

ISSN

0031-9007

Recommended Citation

"Observation of accelerating airy beams" (2007). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 7664.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/7664