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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213901 (2007) [4 pages]

Observation of Accelerating Airy Beams

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G. A. Siviloglou, J. Broky, A. Dogariu, and D. N. Christodoulides*
College of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

Received 15 August 2007; published 20 November 2007

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We report the first observation of Airy optical beams. This intriguing class of wave packets, initially predicted by Berry and Balazs in 1979, has been realized in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. As demonstrated in our experiments, these Airy beams can exhibit unusual features such as the ability to remain diffraction-free over long distances while they tend to freely accelerate during propagation.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.213901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.213901
PACS:
42.25.Fx, 03.50.−z

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

demetri@creol.ucf.edu

 
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