Self-healing of structured light: a review

Y Shen, S Pidishety, I Nape, A Dudley - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being
damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a …

Origin, experimental realization, illustrations, and applications of Bessel beams: a tutorial review

AS Rao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04307, 2024 - arxiv.org
Over the past 36 years much research has been carried out on Bessel beams (BBs) owing to
their peculiar properties, viz non-diffraction behavior, self-healing nature, possession of well …

Autofocusing and self-healing of partially blocked circular Airy derivative beams

A Kumari, V Dev, V Pal - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
We numerically and experimentally study the autofocusing and self-healing of partially
blocked circular Airy derivative beams (CADBs). The CADB consists of multiple rings, and …

Spin‐Selective Trifunctional Metasurfaces for Deforming Versatile Nondiffractive Beams along the Optical Trajectory

T Li, Y Chen, B Fu, M Liu, J Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Exploring and taming the diffraction phenomena and divergence of light are foundational to
enhancing comprehension of nature and developing photonic technologies. Despite the …

Non-diffraction self-acceleration beams with customized transverse intensity profiles based on 3-D-printed meta-structure

M Qu, W Li, Y Xu, J Su, V Nayyeri - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, two 3-D-printed all-dielectric meta-structures that can produce diffraction-free
self-acceleration beams with different transverse intensity profiles are proposed in the …

Controlling cosine-Gaussian beams in linear media with quadratic external potential

L Zhang, H Li, Z Liu, J Zhang, W Cai, Y Gao, D Fan - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We investigate both analytically and numerically the propagation dynamic of on-axis and off-
axis cosine-Gaussian (CG) beams in a linear medium with quadratic external potential. CG …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding non-axisymmetric beams in spherical coordinates with cylindrical wave spectrum decomposition

J Shen, Z Liu, J Liu - Results in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Description of structured beams in spherical coordinates is critical in studying the
interaction between beams and spherical particles. The work extends the cylindrical wave …

An Intriguing Interpretation of 1D and 2D Non-Diffracting Modes in Cosine Profile

AS Rao - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
We provide a simple analysis based on ray optics and Dirac notation for 1D (one-
dimensional) and 2D (two-dimensional) non-diffracting modes in the cosine profile, which …

Complex refraction metasurfaces for locally enhanced propagation through opaque media

S Perea‐Puente… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces with linear phase gradients can redirect light beams. Controlling both phase
and amplitude of a metasurface is proposed to extend Snell's law to the realm of complex …

Long-Focusing Device for Broadband THz Applications Based on a Tunable Reflective Biprism

G Margheri, T Del Rosso - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
THz radiation has assumed great importance thanks to the efforts in the development of
technological tools used in this versatile band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here, we …