Observation of self-accelerating Bessel-like optical beams along arbitrary trajectories

    Authors

    J. Y. Zhao; P. Zhang; D. M. Deng; J. J. Liu; Y. M. Gao; I. D. Chremmos; N. K. Efremidis; D. N. Christodoulides;Z. G. Chen

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    AIRY BEAMS; FINITE-ENERGY; GENERATION; PULSES; Optics

    Abstract

    We experimentally demonstrate self-accelerating Bessel-like optical beams propagating along arbitrary trajectories in free space. With computer-generated holography, such beams are designed to follow different controllable trajectories while their main lobe transverse profiles remain nearly invariant and symmetric. Examples include parabolic, snake-like, hyperbolic, hyperbolic secant, and even three-dimensional spiraling trajectories. The self-healing property of such beams is also demonstrated. This new class of optical beams can be considered as a hybrid between accelerating and nonaccelerating nondiffracting beams that may find a variety of applications. (c) 2013 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    38

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    498

    Last Page

    500

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000315601700038

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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