• DocumentCode
    2256915
  • Title

    Accelerating light beams along arbitrary trajectories

  • Author

    Greenfield, Elad ; Raz, Oren ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally non-broadening optical beams that propagate along any arbitrarily-chosen convex trajectory in space. We present a general method to construct these beams and explore their universal properties using catastrophe theory.
  • Keywords
    catastrophe theory; laser beams; light propagation; physical optics; accelerating light beams; arbitrary trajectories; catastrophe theory; nonbroadening optical beams; universal properties; Acceleration; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical diffraction; Particle beams; Structural beams; Trajectory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951325
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2256915