Radially Self-Accelerating Beams
Optics
2014-05-28 v1
Abstract
We report on optical non-paraxial beams that exhibit a self-accelerating behavior in radial direction. Our theory shows that those beams are solutions to the full scalar Helmholtz equation and that they continuously evolve on spiraling trajectories. We provide a detailed insight into the theoretical origin of the beams and verify our findings on an experimental basis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.6849,
title = {Radially Self-Accelerating Beams},
author = {Christian Vetter and Toni Eichelkraut and Marco Ornigotti and Markus Gräfe and Alexander Szameit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6849},
year = {2014}
}