• DocumentCode
    2261843
  • Title

    Abruptly autofocusing waves

  • Author

    Efremidis, Nikolaos K. ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N. ; Chremmos, Ioannis ; Chen, Zhigang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Math., Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We introduce a new classes of waves that tend to autofocus in an abrupt fashion. These waves can be generated through the use of radially symmetric Airy waves.
  • Keywords
    light diffraction; light propagation; optical dispersion; optical focusing; Airy waves; abruptly autofocusing waves; diffration; dispersion; propagation; Acceleration; Diffraction; Laser beams; Optical diffraction; Optimized production technology; Particle beams; Waveguide lasers;
  • 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
    5951535