Accelerating vortices in Airy beams

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7430, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mazilu, Michael ^a   Baumgartl, Joerg ^a   Čižmár, Tomas ^a   Dholakia, Kishan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airy Beam; Beam Propagation; Optical singularity; Vortex beams

Indexed keywords

AIRY BEAM; BEAM PROPAGATION; BIO PHOTONICS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; CREATION AND ANNIHILATION; CUBIC PHASE; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; HIGHER ORDER; MATHIEU BEAMS; MICRO MANIPULATION; MICRO-PARTICLES; NONDIFFRACTING; NONDIFFRACTING BEAM; OPTICAL SINGULARITY; OPTICAL VORTICES; OPTICALLY CLEAR; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SELF-HEALING; SELF-HEALING PROPERTIES; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; STRAIGHT LINES; VORTEX BEAMS;

COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROOPTICS; VORTEX FLOW;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 70449455989     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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