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 …

Airy plasmons: non‐diffracting optical surface waves

AE Minovich, AE Klein, DN Neshev… - Laser & Photonics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Airy beams represent an important class of non‐diffracting waves which can be realized on
a flat surface. Being generated in the form of surface‐plasmon polaritons, such Airy …

Broadband generation of photonic spin-controlled arbitrary accelerating light beams in the visible

Q Fan, W Zhu, Y Liang, P Huo, C Zhang, A Agrawal… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bending light along arbitrary curvatures is a captivating and popular notion, triggering
unprecedented endeavors in achieving diffraction-free propagation along a curved path in …

Airy beam induced optical routing

P Rose, F Diebel, M Boguslawski, C Denz - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We present an all-optical routing scheme based simultaneously on optically induced
photonic structures and the Airy beam family. The presented work utilizes these accelerating …

Periodic inversion and phase transition of finite energy Airy beams in a medium with parabolic potential

Y Zhang, MR Belić, L Zhang, W Zhong, D Zhu… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We study periodic inversion and phase transition of normal, displaced, and chirped finite
energy Airy beams propagating in a parabolic potential. This propagation leads to an …

Self-accelerating Airy beams: generation, control, and applications

Y Hu, GA Siviloglou, P Zhang, NK Efremidis… - Nonlinear photonics and …, 2012 - Springer
Recently, a specific type of nondiffracting beams named self-accelerating Airy beams has
attracted a great deal of interest due to their unique properties and many proposed …

Generation of Airy vortex and Airy vector beams based on the modulation of dynamic and geometric phases

J Zhou, Y Liu, Y Ke, H Luo, S Wen - Optics Letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel method for the generation of Airy vortex and Airy vector beams based
on the modulation of dynamic and geometric phases. In our scheme, the Airy beam is …

Dynamics of finite energy Airy beams modeled by the fractional Schrödinger equation with a linear potential

X Huang, Z Deng, X Fu - Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The dynamics of finite energy Airy beams modeled by the fractional Schrödinger equation
(FSE) with a linear potential are numerically investigated. Different from the propagation …

Anharmonic propagation of two-dimensional beams carrying orbital angular momentum in a harmonic potential

Y Zhang, X Liu, MR Belić, W Zhong, F Wen, Y Zhang - Optics Letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We analytically and numerically investigate an anharmonic propagation of two-dimensional
beams in a harmonic potential. We pick noncentrosymmetric beams of common interest that …

Dynamic propagation of an Airy beam in metasurface-enabled gradiently-aligned liquid crystals

M Gao, J Wang, W Cai, M Cheng, X Hao, Y Wang… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Due to the unique self-acceleration, self-healing, and non-diffraction properties, Airy beams
have been explored extensively and found applications in various fields. It has been proven …