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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1672-1675Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OL.420135
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-17-1-2458, N00014-20-1-2789]
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This study introduces how angular dispersion affects the tilt of the pulse front, and reveals that propagation-invariant space-time wave packets violate the relationship between angular dispersion and pulse-front tilt, representing a non-conventional phenomenon in optics.
Introducing angular dispersion into a pulsed field tilts the pulse front with respect to the phase front. There exists between the angular dispersion and pulse-front tilt a universal relationship that is device-independent, and also independent of the pulse shape and bandwidth. We show here that this relationship is violated by propagation-invariant space-time (ST) wave packets, which are pulsed beams endowed with precise spatiotemporal structure corresponding to a particular form of angular dispersion. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that ST wave packets represent, to the best of our knowledge, the first example in optics of non-differentiable angular dispersion, resulting in pulse-front tilt that depends on the square-root of the pulse bandwidth. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America
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