Propagation of Airy-related beams
Propagation of Airy-related beams
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2010
Authors
Maria Inês Carvalho
Margarida Facão
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Abstract
New types of finite energy Airy beams are proposed. We consider two
different types of beams, namely, beams that are obtained as blocked
and exponentially attenuated versions of Airy functions Ai and Bi,
and beams of finite width but having the Airy functions typical
phase. All of them show very interesting properties, such as
parabolic trajectories for longer propagation distances, profile
evolution exhibiting less diffraction, or better definiteness of the
main peak, when compared with other finite energy Airy beams studied
before.