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 …

The geometric phase in nonlinear frequency conversion

A Karnieli, Y Li, A Arie - Frontiers of Physics, 2022 - Springer
The geometric phase of light has been demonstrated in various platforms of the linear
optical regime, raising interest both for fundamental science as well as applications, such as …

Synthesis of ultrafast wavepackets with tailored spatiotemporal properties

D Cruz-Delgado, S Yerolatsitis, NK Fontaine… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sculpting light in space and time can provide unprecedented opportunities in many areas of
science and technology, ranging from extreme nonlinear optics and quantum networks to …

Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams

P Zhang, Y Hu, T Li, D Cannan, X Yin, R Morandotti… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber
accelerating beams, generalizing the concept of previously found accelerating beams. We …

Nondiffracting accelerating wave packets of Maxwell's equations

I Kaminer, R Bekenstein, J Nemirovsky, M Segev - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We present the nondiffracting spatially accelerating solutions of the Maxwell equations.
Such beams accelerate in a circular trajectory, thus generalizing the concept of Airy beams …

Abruptly autofocusing beams enable advanced multiscale photo-polymerization

M Manousidaki, DG Papazoglou, M Farsari… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Tunable-ring Airy beams are experimentally generated and employed for the fabrication of
large three-dimensional structures with high resolution using multi-photon polymerization …

Fully vectorial accelerating diffraction-free Helmholtz beams

P Aleahmad, MA Miri, MS Mills, I Kaminer, M Segev… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We show that new families of diffraction-free nonparaxial accelerating optical beams can be
generated by considering the symmetries of the underlying vectorial Helmholtz equation …

Soliton pair generation in the interactions of Airy and nonlinear accelerating beams

Y Zhang, M Belić, Z Wu, H Zheng, K Lu, Y Li, Y Zhang - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We investigate numerically the interactions of two in-phase and out-of-phase Airy beams
and nonlinear (NL) accelerating beams in Kerr and saturable NL media, in one transverse …

Interactions of Airy beams, nonlinear accelerating beams, and induced solitons in Kerr and saturable nonlinear media

Y Zhang, MR Belić, H Zheng, H Chen, C Li, Y Li… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We investigate numerically interactions between two in-phase or out-of-phase Airy beams
and nonlinear accelerating beams in Kerr and saturable nonlinear media in one transverse …

Laser-assisted guiding of electric discharges around objects

M Clerici, Y Hu, P Lassonde, C Milián, A Couairon… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Electric breakdown in air occurs for electric fields exceeding 34 kV/cm and results in a large
current surge that propagates along unpredictable trajectories. Guiding such currents across …