Controlling light in Airy and higher-order caustic photonic structures
Zannotti Alessandro, Diebel Falko, Rüschenbaum Matthias, Denz Cornelia
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewedAbstract
Caustics form geometrically stable structures in light and are hierarchically categorized by the catastrophe theory. We embed higher-order cusp and swallowtail catastrophes in paraxial beams and investigate their dynamics. Utilizing high-intensity caustics that propagate on curved trajectories, we realize photonic caustic lattices in photosensitive media, and demonstrate waveguiding with a rich diversity of light guiding paths.
Details about the publication
Status: Published
Release year: 2017
Language in which the publication is written: English
Conference: Photorefractive Photonics 2017, Qingdao, China
Link to the full text: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/867/1/012022/meta
Authors from the University of Münster
| Denz, Cornelia | |
| Diebel, Falko | |
| Rüschenbaum, Matthias | |
| Zannotti, Alessandro |