Nondiffracting accelerating wave packets of Maxwell's equations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Kaminer, Ido ^a   Bekenstein, Rivka ^a   Nemirovsky, Jonathan ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING SOLUTION; CIRCULAR TRAJECTORY; EXACT SOLUTION; LINEAR WAVES; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NONDIFFRACTING; POYNTING VECTORS; SELF-HEALING; SHAPE-PRESERVING; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TIME-HARMONIC WAVES; TM POLARIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 84859843754     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.163901     Document Type: Article

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