Optical space-time wave packets having arbitrary group velocities in free space

H. Esat Kondakci; Ayman F. Abouraddy

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08735-8

Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Optical space-time wave packets having arbitrary group velocities in free space

H. Esat Kondakci,
Ayman F. Abouraddy

Affiliations

H. Esat Kondakci: CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida
Ayman F. Abouraddy: CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08735-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Controlling the group velocity of light in free space has been limited to small deviations so far. Here, the authors present a method to control the spatio-temporal spectrum and allow arbitrary group velocities of a wave packet in free space both above and below the speed of light.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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