Sub-Wavelength Nonlinear Accelerating Beams
Optics
2012-04-27 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We show that optical nonlinearities allow sub-wavelength beams to propagate in circular trajectories without being attenuated in spite of their partially evanescent spectrum. Such beams are exact solutions to Maxwell's equations with Kerr or saturable nonlinearity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.5866,
title = {Sub-Wavelength Nonlinear Accelerating Beams},
author = {Ido Kaminer and Mordechai Segev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5866},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Submitted to the conference "Nonlinear Photonics 2012" on February 27 2012 (accepted). 2 pages