Accelerating finite energy Airy beams

    Authors

    G. A. Siviloglou;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    NONDIFFRACTING BEAMS; WAVE-PACKETS; X-WAVES; FIELDS; MEDIA; Optics

    Abstract

    We investigate the acceleration dynamics of quasi-diffraction-free Airy beams in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. We show that this class of finite energy waves can retain their intensity features over several diffraction lengths. The possibility of other physical realizations involving spatiotemporal Airy wave packets is also considered. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    32

    Issue/Number

    8

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    979

    Last Page

    981

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000245520400033

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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