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Conversion of any finite bandwidth optical field into a shape invariant beam

Optics 2018-09-14 v1

Abstract

We discuss a method to transform any optical field, with finite frequency bandwidth, into a shape invariant beam with transverse scaling, dependent on the propagation distance. The method consists in modulating the field with a quadratic phase of appropriate curvature radius. As a particular application, we employ the method to extend the existence region of a finite non-diffracting field to an unbounded domain.

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@article{arxiv.1809.04652,
  title  = {Conversion of any finite bandwidth optical field into a shape invariant beam},
  author = {V. Arrizón and F. Soto-Eguibar and D. Sánchez-de-la-Llave and H. M. Moya-Cessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04652},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages, 10 figures, to appear in OSA Continuum