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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 32, Issue 16, Pages 2447-2449Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.002447
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A recently derived Airy beam solution to the (1 + 1)D paraxial equation is shown to obey two salient properties characterizing arbitrary finite energy solutions associated with second-order diffraction; the centroid of the beam is a linear function of the range and its variance varies quadratically in range. Some insight is provided regarding the local acceleration dynamics of the beam. It is shown, specifically, that the interpretation of this beam as accelerating, i.e., one characterized by a nonlinear lateral shift, depends significantly on the parameter a entering into the solution. (C) 2007 Optical Society of America.
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