Airy beams and accelerating waves: an overview of recent advances

NK Efremidis, Z Chen, M Segev, DN Christodoulides - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the last dozen years, the area of accelerating waves has made considerable advances
not only in terms of fundamentals and experimental demonstrations, but also in connection …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Self-accelerating self-trapped optical beams

I Kaminer, M Segev, DN Christodoulides - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-
focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable nonlinearities, as well as a quadratic …

Experimental observation of self-accelerating beams in quadratic nonlinear media

I Dolev, I Kaminer, A Shapira, M Segev, A Arie - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We present the experimental observation of 1D and 2D self-accelerating nonlinear beams in
quadratic media, which are also the first nonlinear self-accelerating beams in any symmetric …

Self-accelerating Airy beams: generation, control, and applications

Y Hu, GA Siviloglou, P Zhang, NK Efremidis… - Nonlinear photonics and …, 2012 - Springer
Recently, a specific type of nondiffracting beams named self-accelerating Airy beams has
attracted a great deal of interest due to their unique properties and many proposed …

Self-healing and self-repairing technologies

R Frei, R McWilliam, B Derrick, A Purvis… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
This article reviews the existing work in self-healing and self-repairing technologies,
including work in software engineering, materials, mechanics, electronics, MEMS, self …

Stationary nonlinear Airy beams

A Lotti, D Faccio, A Couairon, DG Papazoglou… - Physical Review A …, 2011 - APS
We demonstrate the existence of an additional class of stationary accelerating Airy wave
forms that exist in the presence of third-order (Kerr) nonlinearity and nonlinear losses …

Plasmonic Airy beam manipulation in linear optical potentials

W Liu, DN Neshev, IV Shadrivov, AE Miroshnichenko… - Optics Letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate, both theoretically and numerically, the efficient manipulation of plasmonic
Airy beams in linear optical potentials produced by a wedged metal–dielectric–metal …

Two-dimensional solitons in nonlocal media: a brief review

BA Malomed - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
This is a review addressing soliton-like states in systems with nonlocal nonlinearity. The
work on this topic has long history in optics and related areas. Some results produced by the …

Propagation of an Airy beam in a strongly nonlocal nonlinear media

G Zhou, R Chen, G Ru - Laser Physics Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
An analytical expression of an Airy beam propagating in a strongly nonlocal nonlinear
media is derived. The analytical expressions of the corresponding characteristic parameters …