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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2009
Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Casselberry, FL (US);
Aristide Dogariu, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Georgios Siviloglou, Orlando, FL (US);
Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Casselberry, FL (US);
Aristide Dogariu, Winter Springs, FL (US);
Georgios Siviloglou, Orlando, FL (US);
University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for Airy waves and Airy wavepackets or Airy beam generation from an input beam or pulse. Airy wavefronts and Airy wavepackets can be generated using Airy beam generation through Fourier synthesis using phase masks or filters in the spatial domain; Airy beam generation using amplitude and phase filters in the spatial domain; and Airy pulse generation through Fourier synthesis using phase and/or amplitude filters in the temporal frequency domain. The Airy waves are highly asymmetric and as a result their energy is more tightly confined in one quadrant thus increasing the energy density in the main lobes. These wavepackets can be one, two, and three-dimensional waves. In addition they tend to self-heal themselves which is important in adverse environments.