Title

Observation Of Self-Accelerating Bessel-Like Optical Beams Along Arbitrary Trajectories

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, snakelike, 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. © 2013 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

2-15-2013

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Volume

38

Issue

4

Number of Pages

498-500

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000498

Socpus ID

84874036156 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84874036156

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