• DocumentCode
    1674699
  • Title

    Accelerating and diffractionless beams in optical lattices

  • Author

    Makris, K.G. ; El-Ganainy, R. ; Qi, Xinyuan ; Chen, Zhigang ; Christodoulides, D.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Mater. Sci. & Technol. Dept., Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that only in a unique class of z-dependent lattices a true accelerating and diffractionless beam (different from Airy) can exist. Such beams are also possible under nonlinear conditions as exact traveling lattice solitons.
  • Keywords
    optical lattices; optical solitons; Airy; accelerating beams; diffractionless beams; optical lattices; traveling lattice solitons; z-dependent lattices; Acceleration; Diffraction; Educational institutions; Lattices; Optical beams; Particle beams; Solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326452