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Accelerating beams.

Miguel A Bandres¹

¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. bandres@caltech.edu

|December 18, 2009

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Researchers show any 2D accelerating beam has a canonical Fourier space form. This reveals a direct link between line spectra and accelerating beams, enabling novel beam generation with diverse shapes.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Mathematical Physics

Background:

Accelerating beams are crucial for applications like optical manipulation and imaging.
Existing methods for describing and generating accelerating beams can be complex.

Purpose of the Study:

To establish a canonical form for two-dimensional accelerating beams in Fourier space.
To demonstrate a direct correspondence between line spectra and accelerating beams.
To enable the generation of novel accelerating beams with tailored transverse shapes.

Main Methods:

Analysis of the Fourier space representation of two-dimensional accelerating beams.
Establishing a one-to-one mapping between complex functions on the real line (line spectra) and accelerating beams.
Derivation of line spectra for known families of beams.

Main Results:

Any two-dimensional accelerating beam can be represented in a canonical form in Fourier space.
A direct, one-to-one correspondence exists between complex functions on the real line and accelerating beams.
Arbitrary line spectra can be utilized to generate new classes of accelerating beams with varied transverse profiles.
The specific line spectra for Airy and accelerating parabolic beams are presented.

Conclusions:

The canonical Fourier space description simplifies the understanding and generation of accelerating beams.
The established correspondence provides a powerful tool for designing novel optical beams with desired propagation characteristics.
This work opens new avenues for creating customized accelerating beams for advanced optical applications.