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 …

All-dielectric synthetic-phase metasurfaces generating practical airy beams

J Wen, L Chen, B Yu, JB Nieder, S Zhuang, D Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Accelerating optical beams exhibit exotic features, such as nondiffractive propagation, self-
acceleration, and self-healing, which have led their use in a wide range of photonics …

[PDF][PDF] Millimeter-wave wideband high efficiency circular Airy OAM multibeams with multiplexing OAM modes based on transmission metasurfaces

HF Huang, HM Huang - Prog. Electromagn. Res., 2022 - jpier.org
In this paper, wideband and high efficiency millimeter-wave circular Airy orbital angular
momentum (OAM) beams, which have desired multiplexing OAM modes, directions, and …

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 …

Abruptly autofocusing property and optical manipulation of circular Airy beams

W Lu, X Sun, H Chen, S Liu, Z Lin - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
By employing the angular spectrum representation, we successfully derive the partial-wave
expansion coefficients of the circular Airy beams (CABs) with different polarizations, based …

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 …

Controllable circular Airy beams via dynamic linear potential

H Zhong, Y Zhang, MR Belić, C Li, F Wen, Z Zhang… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We investigate controllable spatial modulation of circular autofocusing Airy beams, under
action of different dynamic linear potentials, both theoretically and numerically. We introduce …

Circular Airy beam with an arbitrary conical angle beyond the paraxial approximation

W Lu, H Chen, S Liu, Z Lin - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
An arbitrary conical angle is introduced to the circular Airy beam (CAB) beyond the paraxial
approximation, with the possibility to demonstrate its obvious tunability for the propagation …

Elliptical airy beam

Y Zha, K Huang, B Liu, M Sun, H Hu, N Li, X Zhang… - Applied …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We found a new type of noncircular symmetrical Airy beam called an elliptical Airy beam
(EAB). Using a simple single-pixel checkerboard hologram method, we achieved the EAB in …

Propagation properties of the Airy vortex beam in the linear potential

X Chen, S He, S Wei, D Deng - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the propagation properties of the Airy vortex beam (AVB) in the transverse
linear potential are investigated analytically and numerically. The analytical expression …