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 …

Ultrafast laser micro-and nano-processing with nondiffracting and curved beams: invited paper for the section: hot topics in ultrafast lasers

F Courvoisier, R Stoian, A Couairon - Optics & Laser Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Ultrafast laser materials processing has undergone an important change with the
development of non-diffracting beams. These beams enable overcoming many of the …

Photonic hook plasmons: a new curved surface wave

IV Minin, OV Minin, DS Ponomarev… - Annalen der …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Today the surface plasmon‐polariton (SPP) waves propagating along the curve trajectory
are the only plasmonic beams of the Airy family. Herein, a new class of curved surface …

Multiplexed holograms by surface plasmon propagation and polarized scattering

J Chen, T Li, S Wang, S Zhu - Nano Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Thanks to the superiority in controlling the optical wave fronts, plasmonic nanostructures
have led to various striking applications, among which metasurface holograms have been …

'Twisted'electrons

H Larocque, I Kaminer, V Grillo, G Leuchs… - Contemporary …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Electrons have played a significant role in the development of many fields of physics during
the last century. The interest surrounding them mostly involved their wave-like features …

Three-dimensional self-accelerating acoustic beam based on artificial Archimedean-spiral slits

DC Chen, HY Zhu, DJ Wu, XF Zhu, Y Cheng, XJ Liu - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Self-accelerating acoustic beams (SABs) are capable of transporting particles directionally
and transmitting acoustic signals and energy along curved paths. However, the majority of …

Circular Mathieu and Weber autofocusing beams

Y Zhang, Z Mo, D Xu, S He, Y Ding, Q Huang, Z Lu… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, the new classes of non-paraxial autofocusing beams are introduced for the first
time, to the best of our knowledge. We investigate both numerically and experimentally non …

Experimental verification of a plasmonic hook in a dielectric Janus particle

IV Minin, OV Minin, IA Glinskiy, RA Khabibullin… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the experimental observation of the curved plasmonic beam, a plasmonic hook
(PH), for surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves. The SPP PH effect could be obtained with …

Olver plasmon: an accelerating surface wave with various orders

Y Chen, Z Tu, H Hu, J Zhang, Z Feng, Z Wang… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we introduce a new, to the best of our knowledge, class of accelerating surface
plasmonic wave: the Olver plasmon. Our research reveals that such a surface wave …

Guided self-accelerating Airy beams—a mini-review

Y Zhang, H Zhong, MR Belić, Y Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Owing to their nondiffracting, self-accelerating, and self-healing properties, Airy beams of
different nature have become a subject of immense interest in the past decade. Their …