Title :
Accelerating Airy beams generated by ultrafast laser induced space-variant nanostructures in glass
Author :
Mindaugas Gecevičius;Martynas Beresna;Peter G. Kazansky
Author_Institution :
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
fDate :
5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate new technique to generate accelerating Airy beam with femtosecond laser imprinted space variant birefringence produced by self-assembled nanostructures in fused silica. The technique enables dual Airy beam generation.
Keywords :
"Laser beams","Optical beams","Ultrafast optics","Particle beams","Polarization","Acceleration","Glass"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
DOI :
10.1364/CLEO_AT.2012.JTu1K.7
