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 …

Space-time wave packets

M Yessenov, LA Hall, KL Schepler… - Advances in Optics and …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Space-time wave packets (STWPs) constitute a broad class of pulsed optical fields that are
rigidly transported in linear media without diffraction or dispersion, and are therefore …

Isotropic three-dimensional super-resolution imaging with a self-bending point spread function

S Jia, JC Vaughan, X Zhuang - Nature photonics, 2014 - nature.com
Airy beams maintain their intensity profiles over a large propagation distance without
substantial diffraction and exhibit lateral bending during propagation,,,,. This unique property …

Holographic optical metasurfaces: a review of current progress

P Genevet, F Capasso - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article, we review recent developments in the field of surface electromagnetic wave
holography. The holography principle is used as a tool to solve an inverse engineering …

Generation of electron Airy beams

N Voloch-Bloch, Y Lereah, Y Lilach, A Gover, A Arie - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Within the framework of quantum mechanics, a unique particle wave packet exists in the
form of the Airy function,. Its counterintuitive properties are revealed as it propagates in time …

Tailoring light with a digital micromirror device

YX Ren, RD Lu, L Gong - Annalen der physik, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A digital micromirror device (DMD) is a product of micromechanics. The DMD employs
numerous micromirrors as the actuating components to switch small portions of light on and …

Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams

P Zhang, Y Hu, T Li, D Cannan, X Yin, R Morandotti… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber
accelerating beams, generalizing the concept of previously found accelerating beams. We …

Recent progress and applications of terahertz metamaterials

J He, X He, T Dong, S Wang, M Fu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials are an artificial electromagnetic material composed of periodic/non-periodic
subwavelength micro-/nanostructures, ie meta-atoms. The meta-atom interacts with the …

Cosine-Gauss plasmon beam: a localized long-range nondiffracting surface wave

J Lin, J Dellinger, P Genevet, B Cluzel, F de Fornel… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
A new surface wave is introduced, the cosine-Gauss beam, which does not diffract while it
propagates in a straight line and tightly bound to the metallic surface for distances up to 80 μ …

Non-diffracting light wave: fundamentals and biomedical applications

YX Ren, H He, H Tang, KKY Wong - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 …