1. Propagation properties of cosh-Airy beams.
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Li, H. H., Wang, J. G., Tang, M. M., and Li, X. Z.
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THEORY of wave motion , *PARTICLE beams , *OPTICAL modulation , *RADIOISOTOPE decay , *SUPERPOSITION (Optics) - Abstract
We theoretically investigate the propagation properties of cosh-Airy beams, which can be considered as a superposition of two Airy beams with different decay factors. We find that the field distribution of cosh-Airy beams is the same as that of Airy beams. Moreover, we find that the evolution of cosh-Airy beams is determined by the parameters of the cosh modulation function, in addition to the transverse scale factor and decay factor of the Airy beams. Our results demonstrate a possible method of manipulating Airy beams in free space. They can also be extended to the study of the propagation properties of cosine-Airy beams (or sine-Airy beams). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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