Over the last dozen years, the area of accelerating waves has made considerable advances
not only in terms of fundamentals and experimental demonstrations, but also in connection …

Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber
accelerating beams, generalizing the concept of previously found accelerating beams. We …

Directing acoustic waves along curved paths is critical for applications such as ultrasound
imaging, surgery and acoustic cloaking. Metamaterials can direct waves by spatially varying …

We report femtosecond laser micromachining of micron-size curved structures using tailored
accelerating beams. We report surface curvatures as small as 70 μm in both diamond and …

This book deals with theoretical bases of the modern optics division concerned with
coherent light fields with singularities characterized by phase uncertainty. Singular light …

The light propagation in the medium normally experiences diffraction, dispersion, and
scattering. Studying the light propagation is a century-old problem as the photons may …

We show that new families of diffraction-free nonparaxial accelerating optical beams can be
generated by considering the symmetries of the underlying vectorial Helmholtz equation …

Electric breakdown in air occurs for electric fields exceeding 34 kV/cm and results in a large
current surge that propagates along unpredictable trajectories. Guiding such currents across …

We demonstrate the quantized transfer of photon energy and transverse momentum to a
high-coherence electron beam. In an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, a three …