Trap** and guiding microparticles with morphing autofocusing Airy beams

P Zhang, J Prakash, Z Zhang, MS Mills, NK Efremidis… - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We observe optical trap** and manipulation of dielectric microparticles using autofocusing
radially symmetric Airy beams. This is accomplished by exploiting either the inward or …

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 …

Trap** and transporting aerosols with a single optical bottle beam generated by moiré techniques

P Zhang, Z Zhang, J Prakash, S Huang, D Hernandez… - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate optical trap** and manipulation of aerosols with an optical bottle beam
generated by the moiré techniques. We observe stable trap** and back-and-forth …

Vortex solitons in twisted circular waveguide arrays

L Dong, YV Kartashov, L Torner, A Ferrando - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We address the formation of topological states in twisted circular waveguide arrays and find
that twisting leads to important differences of the fundamental properties of new vortex …

Observation of self-accelerating Bessel-like optical<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> beams along arbitrary trajectories

J Zhao, P Zhang, D Deng, J Liu, Y Gao, ID Chremmos… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
<? A3B2 tlsb-0.012 w?> We experimentally demonstrate self-accelerating Bessel-like optical
beams propagating along arbitrary trajectories in free space. With computer-generated …

Varieties of Stable Vortical Solitons in Ginzburg-Landau<? format?> Media with Radially Inhomogeneous Losses

V Skarka, NB Aleksić, H Leblond, BA Malomed… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
Using a combination of the variation approximation and direct simulations, we consider the
model of the light transmission in nonlinearly amplified bulk media, taking into account the …

Specially shaped Bessel-like self-accelerating beams along predesigned trajectories

J Zhao, ID Chremmos, Z Zhang, Y Hu, D Song… - Science bulletin, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past several years, spatially shaped self-accelerating beams along different
trajectories have been studied extensively. Due to their useful properties such as resistance …

Measuring the rotation rates of superpositions of higher-order Bessel beams

R Rop, A Dudley, C López-Mariscal… - Journal of Modern …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Experimental measurements are reported of the rotation rates of superpositions of higher-
order Bessel beams. Digitally generated phase masks of two annular rings, were imprinted …

Controllable self-rotating array beam with an arc-shaped accelerating trajectory

K Niu, Y Liu, Z Chu, Q Tian, X He, C Pan, F Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this study, a modified interfering vortex phase mask (MIVPM) is proposed to generate a
new type of self-rotating beam. The MIVPM is based on a conventional and stretched vortex …

Trap** aerosols with optical bottle arrays generated through a superposition of multiple Airy beams

Z Zhang, P Zhang, M Mills, Z Chen… - Chinese Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate the generation of an array of optical bottle beams by
employing multiple self-accelerating Airy beams. This kind of optical bottle array is created …