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 …

Propagation dynamics of a light beam in a fractional Schrödinger equation

Y Zhang, X Liu, MR Belić, W Zhong, Y Zhang, M Xiao - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The dynamics of wave packets in the fractional Schrödinger equation is still an open
problem. The difficulty stems from the fact that the fractional Laplacian derivative is …

Generation and near-field imaging of Airy surface plasmons

A Minovich, AE Klein, N Janunts, T Pertsch… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally the generation and near-field imaging of nondiffracting
surface waves, plasmonic Airy beams, propagating on the surface of a gold metal film. The …

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 …

Arbitrary accelerating micron-scale caustic beams in two and three dimensions

L Froehly, F Courvoisier, A Mathis, M Jacquot… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We generate arbitrary convex accelerating beams by direct application of an appropriate
spatial phase profile on an incident Gaussian beam. The spatial phase calculation exploits …

Plasmonic Airy beams with dynamically controlled trajectories

P Zhang, S Wang, Y Liu, X Yin, C Lu, Z Chen… - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report the experimental generation and dynamic trajectory control of plasmonic Airy
beams (PABs). The PABs are created by directly coupling free-space Airy beams to surface …

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 …

Airy trajectory engineering in dynamic linear index potentials

NK Efremidis - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation of Airy beams in transversely linear index potentials with a
gradient that is dynamically changing along the propagation direction. We find exact …