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تسجيل مستخدم جديدArbitrarily accelerating space-time wave packets
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All known realizations of optical wave packets that accelerate along their propagation axis, such as Airy wave packets in dispersive media or wave-front-modulated X-waves, exhibit a constant acceleration; that is, the group velocity varies linearly with propagation. Here we synthesize space-time wave packets that travel in free space with arbitrary axial acceleration profiles, including group velocities that change with integer or fractional exponents of the distance. Furthermore, we realize a composite acceleration profile: the wave packet first accelerates from an initial to a terminal group velocity, decelerates back to the initial value, and then travels at a fixed group velocity. These never-before-seen optical-acceleration phenomena are all produced using the same experimental arrangement that precisely sculpts the wave packets spatio-temporal spectral structure.
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