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Sending femtosecond pulses in circles: highly non-paraxial accelerating beams

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 نشر من قبل John Dudley
 تاريخ النشر 2012
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We use caustic beam shaping on 100 fs pulses to experimentally generate non-paraxial accelerating beams along a 60 degree circular arc, moving laterally by 14 mum over a 28 mum propagation length. This is the highest degree of transverse acceleration reported to our knowledge. Using diffraction integral theory and numerical beam propagation simulations, we show that circular acceleration trajectories represent a unique class of non-paraxial diffraction-free beam profile which also preserves the femtosecond temporal structure in the vicinity of the caustic.



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