We numerically investigate the possibility to generate freely accelerating or decelerating pulses. In particular it is shown that acceleration along the propagation direction z may be obtained by a purely spatial modulation of an input Gaussian pulse in the form of finite-energy Bessel pulses with a cone angle that varies along the radial coordinate.We discuss simple practical implementations of such accelerating Bessel beams.
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Nanophotonics
November 2024
Department of Physics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
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