Dual accelerating Airy-Talbot recurrence effect

Yiqi Zhang; Hua Zhong; Milivoj R. Belic; Xing Liu; Weiping Zhong; Yanpeng Zhang; Min Xiao

doi:10.1364/OL.40.005742

Dual accelerating Airy-Talbot recurrence effect

Yiqi Zhang, Hua Zhong, Milivoj R. Belic, Xing Liu, Weiping Zhong, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao

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We demonstrate the dual accelerating Airyâ€"Talbot recurrence effect, i.e., the self-imaging of accelerating optical beams, by propagating a superposition of Airy beams with successively changing transverse displacements. The dual Airyâ€"Talbot effect is a spontaneous recurring imaging of the input and of the input with alternating component signs. It results from the constructive interference of Airy wave functions, which is also responsible for other kinds of Airy beams, for example, Airy breathers. An input composed of finite-energy Airy beams also displays the dual Airyâ€"Talbot effect, but it demands a large transverse displacement and diminishes fast along the propagation direction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5742-5745
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	40
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.005742
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

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