Title

Accelerating Diffraction-free Beams in Photonic Lattices

Authors

K. G. Makris, Princeton University
I. Kaminer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ramy El-Ganainy, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
N. K. Efremidis, University of Crete
Zhigang Chen, San Francisco State University
M. Segev, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Demetrios N. Christodoulides, University of Central Florida

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-31-2014

Abstract

We study nondiffracting accelerating paraxial optical beams in periodic potentials, in both the linear and the nonlinear domains. In particular, we show that only a unique class of z-dependent lattices can support a true accelerating diffractionless beam. Accelerating lattice solitons, autofocusing beams and accelerating bullets in optical lattices are systematically examined.

Publisher's Statement

© 2014 Optical Society of America. Referenced here in compliance with publisher policies. Publisher's version of record: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.002129

Publication Title

Optics Letters

Recommended Citation

Makris, K. G., Kaminer, I., El-Ganainy, Ramy., Efremidis, N. K., Chen, Z., Segev, M., & Christodoulides, Demetrios, N. (2014). Accelerating Diffraction-Free Beams in Photonic Lattices. Optics Letters, 39(7), 2129-2132. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.002129