Airy Wave Packets Accelerating in Space-Time

Physical Review Letters
H Esat Kondakci, Ayman F Abouraddy

Abstract

Although diffractive spreading is an unavoidable feature of all wave phenomena, certain waveforms can attain propagation invariance. A lesser-explored strategy for achieving optical self-similar propagation exploits the modification of the spatiotemporal field structure when observed in reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. For such an observer, it is predicted that the associated Lorentz boost can bring to a halt the axial dynamics of a wave packet of an arbitrary profile. This phenomenon is particularly striking in the case of a self-accelerating beam-such as an Airy beam-whose peak normally undergoes a transverse displacement upon free propagation. Here we synthesize an acceleration-free Airy wave packet that travels in a straight line by deforming its spatiotemporal spectrum to reproduce the impact of a Lorentz boost. The roles of the axial spatial coordinate and time are swapped, leading to "time diffraction" manifested in self-acceleration observed in the propagating Airy wave-packet frame.

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Citations

Jul 15, 2020·Scientific Reports·Zhaoyang Li, Junji Kawanaka
Feb 26, 2019·Nature Communications·H Esat Kondakci, Ayman F Abouraddy
Aug 19, 2018·Optics Express·Basanta BhaduriAyman F Abouraddy
Jan 31, 2019·Optics Express·Ioannis M Besieris, Amr M Shaarawi
Apr 16, 2019·Optics Letters·Basanta BhaduriAyman F Abouraddy
Feb 8, 2020·Physical Review Letters·B Pinheiro da SilvaA Z Khoury
Apr 3, 2020·Optics Letters·Abbas ShiriAyman F Abouraddy
Aug 15, 2018·Optics Letters·H Esat Kondakci, Ayman F Abouraddy
Oct 13, 2020·Advanced Science·Liang Jie WongIdo Kaminer
Dec 10, 2020·Nature Communications·Abbas ShiriAyman F Abouraddy
Dec 19, 2020·Physical Review Letters·Murat Yessenov, Ayman F Abouraddy
Nov 15, 2020·Nature Communications·Murat YessenovAyman F Abouraddy
Jan 8, 2021·Physical Review Letters·Murat YessenovAyman F Abouraddy
Jan 1, 2021·Optics Express·Lai ChenLi-Gang Wang
Jul 2, 2021·Optics Letters·Layton A HallAyman F Abouraddy

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