| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Vieira, Tarcio A.
[1, 2]
;
Gesualdi, Marcos R. R.
[2]
;
Zamboni-Rached, Michel
[3, 4]
;
Recami, Erasmo
[5, 6]
Total Authors: 4
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis Sao Carlos, BR-13566590 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed ABC, BR-09210580 Santo Andre, SP - Brazil
[3] Univ Toronto, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 - Canada
[4] Univ Estadual Campinas UNICAMP, FEEC, DECOM, BR-13083852 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[5] Univ Statale Bergamo, Fac Ingn, I-24044 Bergamo - Italy
[6] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Milano, I-20129 Milan - Italy
Total Affiliations: 6
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | OPTICS LETTERS; v. 40, n. 24, p. 5834-5837, DEC 15 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 11 |
| Abstract | |
In recent times, we experimentally realized quite an efficient modeling of the shape of diffraction-resistant optical beams, thus generating for the first time the so-called frozen waves (FW), whose longitudinal intensity pattern can be arbitrarily chosen within a prefixed space interval of the propagation axis. In this Letter, we extend our theory of FWs, which led to beams endowed with a static envelope, through a dynamic modeling of the FWs whose shape is now allowed to evolve in time in a predetermined way. Further, we experimentally create such dynamic FWs (DFWs) in optics via a computational holographic technique and a spatial light modulator. Experimental results are presented here for two cases of DFWs, one of zeroth order and the other of higher order, the latter being the most interesting exhibiting a cylindrical surface of light whose geometry changes in space and time. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/11429-2 - Photorefractive Non Linear Optics Techniques Applied in Generation, Control and Analysis of the Wave Optics |
| Grantee: | Marcos Roberto da Rocha Gesualdi |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/26437-6 - Non-diffracting waves in dispersive absorbing media |
| Grantee: | Michel Zamboni Rached |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |