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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Optical Manipulation
    • Wavefront Engineering

    Background:

    • Conventional optical beams often follow restricted trajectories, limiting their application in particle manipulation.
    • Generating optical beams that can follow arbitrary paths is a significant challenge in optical physics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a generalized approach for generating accelerating optical beams along arbitrary trajectories.
    • To enable flexible optical manipulation and particle guidance by overcoming trajectory limitations.

    Main Methods:

    • A generalized spectral phase superposition approach was developed.
    • Customized superimposed phase patterns comprising multiple sub-phases were utilized.
    • An algorithm incorporating phase-shift factors was developed to enhance intensity uniformity.
    • Numerical simulations were performed and experimentally verified.

    Main Results:

    • Accelerating optical beams were generated along arbitrary trajectories, including a spirally accelerating beam in 3D space.
    • An algorithm successfully improved the uniformity of beam intensity along the trajectory.
    • The proposed approach demonstrated the ability to break conventional convex trajectory restrictions.
    • Experimental verification confirmed the accuracy of the numerical simulations.

    Conclusions:

    • The generalized spectral phase superposition approach enables the generation of arbitrary accelerating optical beams.
    • This method overcomes previous trajectory limitations, offering unprecedented control.
    • The developed technique is expected to advance applications in flexible optical manipulation, wavefront control, and particle guidance.