Shaping caustics into propagation-invariant light

Propagation-invariant beams have been up to now only available in a few realizations or for specific applications. Here, the authors demonstrate two methods for generating propagation-invariant beams with fully customizable intensity profiles in a comprehensive way inspired by geometrical optics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alessandro Zannotti, Cornelia Denz, Miguel A. Alonso, Mark R. Dennis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17439-3