• DocumentCode
    689866
  • Title

    Self-accelerating beams in photonic crystal slabs

  • Author

    Kaminer, Ido ; Nemirovsky, Jonathan ; Makris, Konstantinos G. ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We find beams that self-bend to highly nonparaxial angles in a general periodic optical system, demonstrating how light can be guided in structures by only tailoring the incoming field, without altering the structure itself.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; periodic structures; photonic crystals; general periodic optical system; highly nonparaxial angles; photonic crystal slabs; self-accelerating beams; self-bending beams; Acceleration; Nonlinear optics; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Particle beams; Photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834256