Method to Generate Complex Quasinondiffracting Optical Lattices

Servando López-Aguayo, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013902 – Published 28 June 2010

Abstract

We put forward a technique that allows generating quasinondiffracting light beams with a variety of complex transverse shapes. We show that, e.g., spiraling patterns, patterns featuring curved or bent bright stripes, or patterns featuring arbitrary combinations of harmonic, Bessel, Mathieu, and parabolic beams occupying different domains in the transverse plane can be produced. The quasinondiffracting patterns open up a wealth of opportunities for the manipulation of matter and optical waves, colloidal and living particles, with applications in biophysics, and quantum, nonlinear and atom optics.

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  • Received 22 March 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.013902

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Servando López-Aguayo1,2, Yaroslav V. Kartashov1, Victor A. Vysloukh3, and Lluis Torner1

  • 1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
  • 2Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group, Tecnólogico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México 64849
  • 3Departamento de Fisica y Matematicas, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, 72820, Puebla, Mexico

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Vol. 105, Iss. 1 — 2 July 2010

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