ELECTRO-OPTICS LABORATORY
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pseudonondiffracting slitlike beam and its analogy to the pseudonondispersing pulse
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.
| Publication language | English |
| Pages | 423-425 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 01.01.1995 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
