Arbitrary nonparaxial accelerating periodic beams and spherical shaping of light.

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Date publication

juillet 2013

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr FROEHLY Luc


Tous les auteurs :
Mathis A, Courvoisier F, Giust R, Furfaro L, Jacquot M, Froehly L, Dudley JM

Résumé

We report the observation of arbitrary accelerating beams (ABs) designed using a nonparaxial description of optical caustics. We use a spatial light modulator-based setup and techniques of Fourier optics to generate circular and Weber beams subtending over 95 deg of arc. Applying a complementary binary mask also allows the generation of periodic ABs taking the forms of snake-like trajectories, and the application of a rotation to the caustic allows the first experimental synthesis of optical ABs upon the surface of a sphere in three dimensions.

Référence

Opt Lett. 2013 Jul 1;38(13):2218-20