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Specially shaped Bessel-like self-accelerating beams along predesigned trajectories

自加速类贝塞尔光束:可沿着预设空间轨道传输的光束

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Abstract

Over the past several years, spatially shaped self-accelerating beams along different trajectories have been studied extensively. Due to their useful properties such as resistance to diffraction, self-healing, and self-bending even in free space, these beams have attracted great attention with many proposed applications. Interestingly, some of these beams could be designed with controllable spatial profiles and thus propagate along various desired trajectories such as parabolic, snake-like, hyperbolic, hyperbolic secant, three-dimensional spiraling, and even self-propelling trajectories. Experimentally, such beams are realized typically by using a spatial light modulator so as to imprint a desired phase distribution on a Gaussian-like input wave front propagating under paraxial or nonparaxial conditions. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of our recent work on specially shaped self-accelerating beams, including Bessel-like, breathing Bessel-like, and vortex Bessel-like beams. In addition, we propose and demonstrate a new type of dynamical Bessel-like beams that can exhibit not only self-accelerating but also self-propelling during propagation. Both theoretical and experimental results are presented along with a brief discussion of potential applications.

摘要

本文综述了多种特殊设计的自加速类贝塞尔光束。这些光束在理论上通过相位调制或叠加等方法产生,并经过实验装置得以验证。其范围覆盖傍轴和大角度自弯曲非傍轴情况,具体包括类贝塞尔光束、自呼吸型类贝塞尔光束、涡旋型类贝塞尔光束、自螺旋型类贝塞尔光束,以及非傍轴类贝塞尔光束。基于这些光束具有无衍射、自加速、自修复、光场中心对称及光束传输轨迹可调控等特点,它们不仅具有重要的基础研究价值, 而且在微粒操控、等离子体、大气科学、生物操控等诸多领域都具有重要的应用前景。

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61475161 and 11304165), China Scholarship Council, and Natural Science Foundation (NSF) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in USA.

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  1. TEDA Applied Physics Institute and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tian**, 300457, China

    Juanying Zhao, Yi Hu, Daohong Song & Zhigang Chen

  2. Science and Technology on Solid-State Laser Laboratory, North China Institute of Electronics Optics, Bei**g, 100015, China

    Juanying Zhao

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    Juanying Zhao, Peng Zhang & Zhigang Chen

  4. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    I. D. Chremmos

  5. Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100094, China

    Ze Zhang

  6. Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, 70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    N. K. Efremidis

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Zhao, J., Chremmos, I.D., Zhang, Z. et al. Specially shaped Bessel-like self-accelerating beams along predesigned trajectories. Sci. Bull. 60, 1157–1169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-015-0792-1

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