Seminar
Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
Accelerating optical Airy beams
Tuesday, 16.03.2010 ~11 a.m. in H107, Fakultät für Physik LMU
Georgios Siviloglou, College of Optics and Photonics: Creol & FPCE, University of Central Florida
We report the first observation of Airy optical beams. This intriguing class of wave packets, initially predicted by Berry and Balazs in 1979, has been realized in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. As demonstrated in our experiments, these Airy beams can remain diffraction-free over long distances while they tend to freely accelerate during propagation.