Photonic hook: a new curved light beam

5 years ago

Photonic hook: a new curved light beam

Oleg V. Minin, Alexander S. Shalin, Zengbo Wang, James N. Monks, Igor V. Minin, Liyang Yue

It is well known that electromagnetic radiation propagates along a straight line, but this common sense was broken by the artificial curved light—the Airy beam. In this Letter, we demonstrate a new type of curved light beam besides the Airy beam, the so-called “photonic hook.” ...

Publisher URL: http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm

DOI: ol-43-4-771

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