Title

Modelling Airy Beams Propagation With Lens Design Software

Keywords

Airy beams; beam propagation method; wavefront shaping

Abstract

Airy beams are a new class of nondiffracting beams predicted in 1979 and observed in 2007. In this paper, we show that beam propagation methods are an effective way to study the behavior of those beams in propagation and to design such beams. A lens design software integrated beam propagation feature is implemented to design an Airy beam generation setup based on Fourier transform in a coherent optical system. The setup was reproduced in the lab for experimental validation using a "cubic-shaped" mirror. The resulting monochromatic Airy beam presents a main lobe FWHM of approximately 30 μm over a diffraction-free distance of 15 mm. Computational results show excellent agreement with experimental data as well as with analytical predictions expressed in terms of the optical setup geometrical parameters. © 2010 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.

Publication Date

11-8-2010

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

7652

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869084

Socpus ID

78049363809 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78049363809

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