Recent theoretical and experimental achievements
using ST wave packets
Synthesis of ST wave packets with arbitrary spatial profile and spectral tilt angle: Nat. Photon. 11, 733 (2017).
Broadband synthesis with refractive phase plates: Opt. Express 26, 13628 (2018)
Observation of ‘time-diffraction’: Opt. Lett. 42, 4679 (2017); Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163901 (2018); Phys. Rev. A 97, 063803 (2018)
Arbitrary group velocities in free space: Optica 4, 1298 (2017); Nat. Photon. 12, 262 (2018); Nat. Commun. 10, 929 (2019)
Incoherent broadband diffraction-free ST fields: Optica, under review
Extended propagation distances: Opt. Express 26, 20111 (2018)
Self-healing after traversing opaque obstructions: Opt. Lett. 43, 3830 (2018)
Propagation in optical materials at c: Optica 6, 139 (2019)
Classification of ST wave packets: Phys. Rev. A, 99, 023856 (2019)
Realization of tilted-pulse-front ST wave packets: ACS Photon. 4, 2257 (2017); ACS Photon. 6, 475 (2019)
Elucidating the role of classical entanglement and identifying the propagation limits: arxiv:1812.10566; arxiv:1901.00538
Law of refraction for ST wave packets: In preparation
References and resources
Focus-wave modes
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X-waves
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M.A. Porras et al. “Unified description of Bessel X waves with cone dispersion and tilted pulses,” Phys. Rev. E 68, 016613 (2003).
C.J. Zapata-Rodríguez and M.A. Porras. “X-wave bullets with negative group velocity in vacuum,” Opt. Lett. 31, 3532–3534 (2006).
D. Faccio et al. “Spatio-temporal reshaping and X wave dynamics in optical filaments,” Opt. Express 15, 13077 (2007).
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Time diffraction
P.A. Bélanger. “Lorentz transformation of packetlike solutions of the homogeneous-wave equation,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3, 541 (1986).
P. Saari and K. Reivelt. “Generation and classification of localized waves by Lorentz transformations in Fourier space,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 036612 (2004).
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M.A. Porras. “Gaussian beams diffracting in time,” Opt. Lett. 42, 4679 (2017).
M.A. Porras. “Nature, diffraction-free propagation via space-time correlations, and nonlinear generation of time-diffracting light beams,” Phys. Rev. A 97, 063803 (2018).
Reviews
H.E. Hernández-Figueroa et al., eds. Localized waves (Wiley-Interscience, 2008).
J. Turunen and A.T. Friberg. “Propagation-invariant optical fields,” Prog. Opt. 54, 1 (2010).
H. E. Hernández-Figueroa et al., eds. Non-diffracting Waves (Wiley-VCH, 2014).
Recent work
H.E. Kondakci and A.F. Abouraddy. “Diffraction-free space-time beams,” Nat. Photon. 11, 733 (2017).
K.J. Parker and M.A. Alonso. “The longitudinal iso-phase condition and needle pulses,” Opt. Express 24, 28669 (2016).
L.J. Wong and I. Kaminer. “Abruptly focusing and defocusing needles of light and closed-form electromagnetic wavepackets,” ACS Photon. 4, 1131 (2017).
L.J. Wong and I. Kaminer. “Ultrashort tilted-pulse-front pulses and nonparaxial tilted-phase-front beams,” ACS Photon. 4, 2257 (2017).
A. Sainte-Marie et al. “Controlling the velocity of ultrashort light pulses in vacuum through spatio-temporal couplings,” Optica 4, 1298 (2017).
D.H. Froula et al. “Spatiotemporal control of laser intensity,” Nat. Photon. 12, 262 (2018).