Open AccessSelf-healing properties of optical Airy beams
Author(s) -
John Broky,
Georgios A. Siviloglou,
Aristide Dogariu,
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.16.012880
Subject(s) - optics , airy beam , transverse plane , physics , scattering , turbulence , light beam , laser beams , forward scatter , beam (structure) , mechanics , laser , structural engineering , engineering
We investigate both theoretically and experimentally the self-healing properties of accelerating Airy beams. We show that this class of waves tends to reform during propagation in spite of the severity of the imposed perturbations. In all occasions the reconstruction of these beams is interpreted through their internal transverse power flow. The robustness of these optical beams in scattering and turbulent environments is also studied experimentally. Our observations are in excellent agreement with numerical simulations.