Ring-Airy beams at the wavelength limit. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We demonstrate that paraxial ring-Airy beams can approach the wavelength limit, while observing a counterintuitive, strong enhancement of their focal peak intensity. Using numerical simulations, we show that this behavior is a result of the coherent constructive action of paraxial and nonparaxial energy flow. A simple theoretical model enables us to predict the parameter range over which this is possible.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Manousidaki, M., Fedorov, V. Y., Papazoglou, D. G., Farsari, M., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

  • 12

complete list of authors

  • Manousidaki, Maria||Fedorov, Vladimir Yu||Papazoglou, Dimitrios G||Farsari, Maria||Tzortzakis, Stelios

publication date

  • March 2018