Loss-proof self-accelerating beams and their use in non-paraxial manipulation of particles’ trajectories

Ran Schley, Ido Kaminer, Elad Greenfield, Rivka Bekenstein, Yaakov Lumer and Mordechai Segev ()
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Ran Schley: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Ido Kaminer: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Elad Greenfield: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Rivka Bekenstein: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Yaakov Lumer: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Mordechai Segev: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Self-accelerating beams—shape-preserving bending beams—are attracting great interest, offering applications in many areas such as particle micromanipulation, microscopy, induction of plasma channels, surface plasmons, laser machining, nonlinear frequency conversion and electron beams. Most of these applications involve light-matter interactions, hence their propagation range is limited by absorption. We propose loss-proof accelerating beams that overcome linear and nonlinear losses. These beams, as analytic solutions of Maxwell’s equations with losses, propagate in absorbing media while maintaining their peak intensity. While the power such beams carry decays during propagation, the peak intensity and the structure of their main lobe region are maintained over large distances. We use these beams for manipulation of particles in fluids, steering the particles to steeper angles than ever demonstrated. Such beams offer many additional applications, such as loss-proof self-bending plasmons. In transparent media these beams show exponential intensity growth, which facilitates other novel applications in micromanipulation and ignition of nonlinear processes.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6189

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