Bongiovanni, Domenico, Wetzel, Benjamin, Hu, Yi, Chen, Zhigang and Morandotti, Roberto (2016) Optimal compression and energy confinement of optical Airy bullets. Optics Express, 24 (23). pp. 26454-26463. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

We report on an approach to generate non-diffractive and non dispersive Airy3 bullets with enhanced spatio-temporal energy confinement. By appropriately reshaping the initial spectral components in the Fourier domain, the resulting optical bullets show a significant enhancement of their central lobe intensity while exhibiting a reduced spatio-temporal outspread of the surrounding sub-lobes - typical of Airy3 bullets. Numerically, we demonstrate that when propagating in dispersive media within a linear regime, such optimized Airy3 bullets maintain the peculiar properties of their “standard” counterparts, including curved trajectories, non-spreading features and self-healing. We foresee direct applications in novel and non-disruptive optical techniques for imaging, tomography and spatio-temporally resolved spectroscopy.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Diffraction theory; Dispersion; Pulse shaping; Propagation; Invariant optical fields ; Wave propagation
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
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Depositing User:	Benjamin Wetzel
Date Deposited:	02 Feb 2017 08:47
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2019 17:32
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66538

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