Title :
Generation and propagation of partially spatially incoherent Airy beams
Author :
Yi Liang ; Daohong Song ; Cibo Lou ; Xinzheng Zhang ; Jingjun Xu ; Zhigang Chen
Author_Institution :
MOE Key Lab. of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
We present an experimental study of partially-spatially incoherent Airy beams. Our results suggest that spatial coherence affects the exponential truncation factor and self-healing property of Airy beams but has little effect on their self-acceleration trajectories.
Keywords :
laser beams; light propagation; Airy beam generation; Airy beam propagation; exponential truncation factor; partially spatially incoherent Airy beams; self-acceleration trajectories; self-healing property; spatial coherence; Acceleration; Coherence; Educational institutions; Laser beams; Optimized production technology; Spatial coherence;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
