Title

Self-Accelerating Airy Beams: Generation, Control, And Applications

Abstract

Recently, a specific type of nondiffracting beams named self-accelerating Airy beams has attracted a great deal of interest due to their unique properties and many proposed applications in areas such as optical micromanipulation, plasma guidance, vacuum electron acceleration, and routing surface plasmon polaritons. In contradistinction with Bessel beams, Airy beams do not rely on simple conical superposition of plane waves, and they possess the properties of self-acceleration in addition to nondiffraction and self-healing. For the past few years, tremendous research work has been devoted to the study of Airy beams, from theoretical predictions to experimental observations, from linear control to nonlinear self-trapping, and from fundamental aspects to demonstrations of potential applications. In this chapter, we provide an overview on generation and control of Airy beams and recent developments in the area. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Publication Date

8-29-2012

Publication Title

Springer Series in Optical Sciences

Volume

170

Number of Pages

1-46

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3538-9_1

Socpus ID

84865308846 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84865308846

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