Observation of abruptly autofocusing waves

    Authors

    D. G. Papazoglou; N. K. Efremidis; D. N. Christodoulides;S. Tzortzakis

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    AIRY BEAMS; GENERATION; Optics

    Abstract

    We report on the experimental observation of abruptly autofocusing waves. This interesting family of wave packets has been realized by using a radially symmetric Airy intensity distribution. As demonstrated in our experiments, these waves can exhibit unusual features, such as the ability to autofocus by following a parabolic trajectory toward their focus. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    36

    Issue/Number

    10

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1842

    Last Page

    1844

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000290716000034

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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