Airy beams and accelerating waves: an overview of recent advances

NK Efremidis, Z Chen, M Segev, DN Christodoulides - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Simultaneous optical trap** and imaging in the axial plane: a review of current progress

Y Liang, S Yan, Z Wang, R Li, Y Cai, M He… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical trap** has become a powerful tool in numerous fields such as biology, physics,
chemistry, etc. In conventional optical trap** systems, trap** and imaging share the …

Laser-assisted guiding of electric discharges around objects

M Clerici, Y Hu, P Lassonde, C Milián, A Couairon… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
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 …

Accelerated rotation with orbital angular momentum modes

C Schulze, FS Roux, A Dudley, R Rop, M Duparré… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We introduce a class of light field that angularly accelerates during propagation. We show
that the acceleration (deceleration) may be controlled by adjustment of a single parameter …

On-Chip Meta-Optics for Engineering Arbitrary Trajectories with Longitudinal Polarization Variation

Y Shi, S Wan, C Dai, Z Wang, Z Li, Z Li - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
On-chip integrated meta-optics promise to achieve high-performance and compact
integrated photonic devices. To arbitrarily engineer the optical trajectory along the …

Use of dielectric metasurfaces to generate deep‐subwavelength nondiffractive bessel‐like beams with arbitrary trajectories and ultralarge deflection

J Wen, L Chen, X Chen, S Kanwal… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, accelerating beams have attracted considerable interest in fundamental
physics and in various emerging applications. However, not only are conventional …

Non-diffraction self-acceleration beams with customized transverse intensity profiles based on 3-D-printed meta-structure

M Qu, W Li, Y Xu, J Su, V Nayyeri - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, two 3-D-printed all-dielectric meta-structures that can produce diffraction-free
self-acceleration beams with different transverse intensity profiles are proposed in the …

Autofocusing Pearcey-like vortex beam along a parabolic trajectory

Y Wu, S He, J Wu, Z Lin, L Chen, H Qiu, Y Liu… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2021 - Elsevier
A new type of Pearcey-like vortex beam, generated by the appropriate phase modulation of
the optical wavefront, which propagates along a predesigned parabolic trajectory in the free …

Sha** convex edges in borosilicate glass by single pass perforation with an Airy beam

D Sohr, JU Thomas, S Skupin - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate curved modifications with lengths of up to 2 mm within borosilicate glass
produced by single 1030 nm picosecond laser shots with an Airy beam profile. Plasma …

Incoherent self-accelerating beams

Y Lumer, Y Liang, R Schley, I Kaminer, E Greenfield… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Self-accelerating optical beams form as a direct outcome of interference, initiated by a
predesigned initial condition. In a similar fashion, quantum mechanical particles exhibit force …