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 …

Highly efficient generation of arbitrary vector beams with tunable polarization, phase, and amplitude

S Liu, S Qi, Y Zhang, P Li, D Wu, L Han… - Photonics Research, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose an efficient and robust method to generate tunable vector beams by employing
a single phase-type spatial light modulator (SLM). With this method, a linearly polarized …

Generation of perfect vectorial vortex beams

P Li, Y Zhang, S Liu, C Ma, L Han, H Cheng, J Zhao - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We propose the concept of perfect vectorial vortex beams (VVBs), which not merely have
intensity profile independent of the polarization order and the topological charge of spiral …

Spiral autofocusing Airy beams carrying power-exponent-phase vortices

P Li, S Liu, T Peng, G **e, X Gan, J Zhao - Optics Express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new type of noncanonical optical vortex, named “power-exponent-phase
vortex (PEPV)”. The spiral focusing of the autofocusing Airy beams carrying PEPVs are …

Nonparaxial accelerating Bessel-like beams

ID Chremmos, NK Efremidis - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2013 - APS
A class of nonparaxial accelerating optical waves is introduced. These are beams with a
Bessel-like profile that are capable of shifting laterally along fairly arbitrary trajectories as the …

Propagation of sharply autofocused ring Airy Gaussian vortex beams

B Chen, C Chen, X Peng, Y Peng, M Zhou, D Deng - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Controlling the focal length and the intensity of the optical focus in the media is an important
task. Here we investigate the propagation properties of the sharply autofocused ring Airy …

Propagation dynamics of abruptly autofocusing circular Airy Gaussian vortex beams in the fractional Schrödinger equation

S He, BA Malomed, D Mihalache, X Peng, X Yu… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We introduce axisymmetric Airy-Gaussian vortex beams in a model of an optical
system based on the (2+ 1)-dimensional fractional Schrödinger equation (FSE) …

Soliton pair generation in the interactions of Airy and nonlinear accelerating beams

Y Zhang, M Belić, Z Wu, H Zheng, K Lu, Y Li, Y Zhang - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We investigate numerically the interactions of two in-phase and out-of-phase Airy beams
and nonlinear (NL) accelerating beams in Kerr and saturable NL media, in one transverse …

Interactions of Airy beams, nonlinear accelerating beams, and induced solitons in Kerr and saturable nonlinear media

Y Zhang, MR Belić, H Zheng, H Chen, C Li, Y Li… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We investigate numerically interactions between two in-phase or out-of-phase Airy beams
and nonlinear accelerating beams in Kerr and saturable nonlinear media in one transverse …

Radiation force of abruptly autofocusing Airy beams on a Rayleigh particle

Y Jiang, K Huang, X Lu - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The radiation force of circular Airy beams (CAB) on a dielectric Rayleigh particle is
investigated in this paper. Our results show that the CAB can be used to trap the particle …