Paraxial Localized Waves in Free Space

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2004-07-01

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

Subluminal, luminal and superluminal localized wave solutions to the paraxial pulsed beam equation in free space are determined. A clarification is also made to recent work on pulsed beams of arbitrary speed which are solutions of a narrowband temporal spectrum version of the forward pulsed beam equation. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

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Aperture realizations, Nondiffracting x, Light-beams, Equations, Evolution, Pulses

Citation

Ioannis Besieris and Amr Shaarawi, "Paraxial localized waves in free space," Opt. Express 12, 3848-3864 (2004). doi: 10.1364/opex.12.003848