Accelerating Airy beams in the presence of inhomogeneities

作者：Besieris Ioannis M; Shaarawi Amr M; Zamboni Rached Michel

来源：Optics Communications, 2016, 369: 56-64.

DOI：10.1016/j.optcom.2016.02.020

• Accelerating Airy beams
• Inhomogeneous media
• Diffraction
• Paraxial limit

Studies have already been made of accelerating Airy beams in the presence of deterministic in homogeneities, illustrating, in particular, that the inherent self-healing properties of such beams are preserved. The cases of a range-dependent linear transverse potential and a converging GRIN structure (harmonic oscillator) have been examined thoroughly. Examples will be given in this article of novel accelerating Airy beams in the presence of five other types of potential functions. Three of the resulting exact analytical solutions have a common salient characteristic property: they are constructed using the free-space accelerating Airy beam solution as a seed.

• 出版日期2016-6-15