Title :
Self-accelerating beams in photonic crystal slabs
Author :
Kaminer, Ido ; Nemirovsky, Jonathan ; Makris, Konstantinos G. ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We find beams that self-bend to highly nonparaxial angles in a general periodic optical system, demonstrating how light can be guided in structures by only tailoring the incoming field, without altering the structure itself.
Keywords :
laser beams; periodic structures; photonic crystals; general periodic optical system; highly nonparaxial angles; photonic crystal slabs; self-accelerating beams; self-bending beams; Acceleration; Nonlinear optics; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Particle beams; Photonic crystals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
