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Accelerating finite energy Airy beams

Optics Letters · 2007 · Vol. 32(8) · pp. 979–979

Georgios A. Siviloglou✉(University of Central Florida)Demetrios N. Christodoulides(University of Central Florida)

Abstract

We investigate the acceleration dynamics of quasi-diffraction-free Airy beams in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. We show that this class of finite energy waves can retain their intensity features over several diffraction lengths. The possibility of other physical realizations involving spatiotemporal Airy wave packets is also considered.

Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics Nonlinear Photonic Systems Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesAiry beamDiffractionOpticsPhysicsWave packetAccelerationPhysical opticsEnergy (signal processing)Beam (structure)Classical mechanics

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