Self-healing properties of optical Airy beams.

By J. Broky, G. Siviloglou, A. Dogariu, Demetrios N. Christodoulides. Optics Express, 2008

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We investigate both theoretically and experimentally the self-healing properties of accelerating Airy beams. We show that this class of waves tends to reform during propagation in spite of the severity of the imposed perturbations. In all occasions the reconstruction of these beams is interpreted through their internal transverse power flow. The robustness of these optical beams in scattering and turbulent environments is also studied experimentally. Our observations are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Reproductive Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Nonlinear generation and manipulation of Airy beams (2009, background): “Their special self-healing properties, that is, self-restoration of their canonical form after passing small obstacles, have been theoretically and experimentally demonstrate”
• Microscopy with self-reconstructing beams (2010, background): “This work was extended to other non-diffracting beam”
• Airy–Bessel wave packets as versatile linear light bullets (2010, background): “Finally, Airy wave packets exhibit remarkable ‘self-healing’ after distortio”