Generation of self-healing spatiotemporal Airy wavepackets based on discrete frequency and geometric phase modulation

Haizhou Wang; Weiqi Chen; Dong Li; Jia Xue; Yanxiao Sun; Heze Zhang; Chao Zeng; Bingyan Wei; Dong Mao

doi:10.3788/COL202523.091405

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 9, 091405(2025)

Generation of self-healing spatiotemporal Airy wavepackets based on discrete frequency and geometric phase modulation

Haizhou Wang, Weiqi Chen, Dong Li, Jia Xue, Yanxiao Sun, Heze Zhang, Chao Zeng, Bingyan Wei^**, and Dong Mao^*

Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology; School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

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Haizhou Wang, Weiqi Chen, Dong Li, Jia Xue, Yanxiao Sun, Heze Zhang, Chao Zeng, Bingyan Wei, Dong Mao, "Generation of self-healing spatiotemporal Airy wavepackets based on discrete frequency and geometric phase modulation," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 091405 (2025)

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