Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 11, 110701(2013)

Self-accelerating and self-breathing Bessel-like beams along arbitrary trajectories

Juanying Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dongmei Deng, Cibo Lou, Daohong Song, Jingjiao Liu, and Zhigang Chen

We theoretically and experimentally study self-accelerating and self-breathing Bessel-like beams that follow arbitrary trajectories, including hyperbolic, hyperbolic secant, and three-dimensional (3D) spiraling trajectories. The beams have an overall Bessel-like profile in transverse dimensions; however, the intensity of their central main lobe breathes while traveling along a curved trajectory. Such beams can be readily generated experimentally through appropriate phase modulation of the optical wavefront. The beams contribute to the design of new families of self-accelerating beams.

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Juanying Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dongmei Deng, Cibo Lou, Daohong Song, Jingjiao Liu, Zhigang Chen. Self-accelerating and self-breathing Bessel-like beams along arbitrary trajectories[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2013, 11(11): 110701

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Category: Fourier Optics and Signal Processing

Received: Jul. 23, 2013

Accepted: Sep. 16, 2013

Published Online: Nov. 25, 2013

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DOI:10.3788/col201311.110701

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