PSEUDONONDIFFRACTING SLITLIKE BEAM AND ITS ANALOGY TO THE PSEUDONONDISPERSING PULSE

被引:34
作者
ROSEN, J [1 ]
SALIK, B [1 ]
YARIV, A [1 ]
LIU, HK [1 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH,JET PROP LAB,PASADENA,CA 91109
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9;
D O I
10.1364/OL.20.000423
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A new nonspreading beam is proposed for the case in which diffraction occurs only in one transverse coordinate. The beam has the shape of a pulse in one dimension and is constant in the other (slitlike shape). The intensity of the pulse's peak remains almost constant along a finite interval on the propagation axis. The proposed beam is analyzed and demonstrated experimentally. The analogy between this beam and the temporal pulse in a dispersive medium is discussed.
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