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

Bessel-like optical beams with arbitrary trajectories.

A method is proposed for generating Bessel-like optical beams with arbitrary trajectories in free space. The method involves phase-modulating an optical wavefront so that conical bundles of rays are formed whose apexes write a continuous focal curve with pre-specified shape. These ray cones have circular bases on the input plane; thus their interference results in a Bessel-like transverse field...

Incoherent self-accelerating beams

YAAKOV LUMER, YI LIANG, RAN SCHLEY, IDO KAMINER, ELAD GREENFIELD, DAOHONG SONG, XINZHENG ZHANG, JINGJUN XU, ZHIGANG CHEN, AND MORDECHAI SEGEV* Physics Department, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Applied Physics Institute & School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China College of Physics Science...

Exploring Bessel beams, Airy beams, and Hydrogen-like linear bullets

Self-accelerating self-trapped optical beams.

We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable nonlinearities, as well as a quadratic response. In Kerr and saturable media such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self-focusing the beams off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues to accelerate. Sel...

Shaping self-imaging bottle beams with modified quasi-Bessel beams.

Coherent generated self-imaging bottle beams, typically formed by interfering two coherent quasi-Bessel beams, possess a periodic array of intensity maxima and minima along their axial direction. In practice, the overall quality of the self-repeating intensity patterns is prone to unresolved large intensity variations. In this Letter, we increased consistency of intensity of self-imaging bottle...