Sharper focus for singular beams

Andrea Aiello, Martin Paur, Bohumil Stoklasa, Zdenek Hradil, Jaroslav Rehacek, Luis Sanchez-Soto
2020 OSA Continuum  
We report,to the best of our knowledge, the first observation of concentrating paraxial beams of light in a linear nondispersive medium. We have generated this intriguing class of light beams, recently predicted by one of us, in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. As we demonstrate in our experiments, these concentrating beams display unconventional features, such as the ability to strongly focus in the focal spot of a thin lens like a plane wave, while keeping their total energy finite.
doi:10.1364/osac.400410 fatcat:ngyyzwkxnfa5vj7sl7fgg2xooa