Accelerating diffraction-free beams in photonic lattices

    Authors

    K. G. Makris; I. Kaminer; R. El-Ganainy; N. K. Efremidis; Z. Chen; M. Segev;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    ABRUPTLY AUTOFOCUSING WAVES; GUIDE ARRAYS; Optics

    Abstract

    We study nondiffracting accelerating paraxial optical beams in periodic potentials, in both the linear and the nonlinear domains. In particular, we show that only a unique class of z-dependent lattices can support a true accelerating diffractionless beam. Accelerating lattice solitons, autofocusing beams and accelerating bullets in optical lattices are systematically examined. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    39

    Issue/Number

    7

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    2129

    Last Page

    2132

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000333887800108

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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