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 |
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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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