Accelerating vector beams along parabolic trajectories

Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán; Zhao Bo; Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo; Xiao-Bo Hu; Raúl I. Hernadez-Aranda; Benjamin Perez-García

doi:10.1117/12.2603193

1 August 2021 Accelerating vector beams along parabolic trajectories

Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Zhao Bo, Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo, Xiao-Bo Hu, Raúl I. Hernadez-Aranda, Benjamin Perez-García

Proceedings Volume 11818, Laser Beam Shaping XXI; 1181808 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603193
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Complex vector light fields have become a topic of late due to their exotic features, such as their non-homogeneous transverse polarisation distributions and the non-separable coupling between their spatial and polarisation degrees of freedom. In general, vector beams propagate in free space along straight lines, being the Airy-vector vortex beams the only known exception. Here, we introduce a new family of vector beams that exhibit properties that have not been observed before, such as their ability to freely accelerate along parabolic trajectories. We anticipate that these novel vector beams might find applications in fields such as optical manipulation, microscopy, laser material processing, among others.

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Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Zhao Bo, Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo, Xiao-Bo Hu, Raúl I. Hernadez-Aranda, and Benjamin Perez-García "Accelerating vector beams along parabolic trajectories", Proc. SPIE 11818, Laser Beam Shaping XXI, 1181808 (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603193

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