Observation of concentrating paraxial beams
Optics
2020-09-08 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report,to the best of our knowledge, the first observation of concentrating paraxial beams of light in a linear nondispersive medium. We have generated this intriguing class of light beams, recently predicted by one of us, in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. As we demonstrate in our experiments, these concentrating beams display unconventional features, such as the ability to strongly focus in the focal spot of a thin lens like a plane wave, while keeping their total energy finite.
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@article{arxiv.2009.02254,
title = {Observation of concentrating paraxial beams},
author = {Andrea Aiello and Martin Paur and Bohumil Stoklasa and Zdenek Hradil and Jaroslav Rehacek and Luis L. Sanchez-Soto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02254},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, 7 figures