Abruptly autofocusing and autodefocusing optical beams with arbitrary caustics
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Ioannis D. Chremmos,1,* Zhigang Chen,2 Demetrios N. Christodoulides,3 and Nikolaos K. Efremidis1 1Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion 71409, Crete, Greece 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132 USA 3CREOL/College of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816 USA (Received 10 November 2011; published 22 February 2012)
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