Shaping caustics into propagation-invariant light.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
17 Jul 2020
17 Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
04
10
2019
accepted:
27
05
2020
entrez:
19
7
2020
pubmed:
19
7
2020
medline:
19
7
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Structured light has revolutionized optical particle manipulation, nano-scaled material processing, and high-resolution imaging. In particular, propagation-invariant light fields such as Bessel, Airy, or Mathieu beams show high robustness and have a self-healing nature. To generalize such beneficial features, these light fields can be understood in terms of caustics. However, only simple caustics have found applications in material processing, optical trapping, or cell microscopy. Thus, these technologies would greatly benefit from methods to engineer arbitrary intensity shapes well beyond the standard families of caustics. We introduce a general approach to arbitrarily shape propagation-invariant beams by smart beam design based on caustics. We develop two complementary methods, and demonstrate various propagation-invariant beams experimentally, ranging from simple geometric shapes to complex image configurations such as words. Our approach generalizes caustic light from the currently known small subset to a complete set of tailored propagation-invariant caustics with intensities concentrated around any desired curve.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32681123
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17439-3
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-17439-3
pmc: PMC7367875
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3597Subventions
Organisme : National Science Foundation (NSF)
ID : PHY-1507278
Organisme : Leverhulme Trust
ID : RP2013-K-009
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