Nov 28, 2007 · A new optics experiment makes a light beam appear to bend in air. The brightest patch of the beam also appears to travel with almost no spreading, unlike ordinary laser …

Apr 16, 2012 · Mirrors, lenses, and light guides are all ways to force light to take a more circuitous path, but an alternative that many researchers are exploring is to prepare light beams that can …

Nov 7, 2015 · Light travels in a straight line in space. In your picture, the light is being ducted along the curved channel in a series of short straight lines between reflections against the …

Apr 19, 2012 · Segev believes that by replacing the laser beams with self-bending light, researchers could force trapped objects to travel along complex paths without touching them. …

Jan 15, 2018 · For the first time in an expeirment, physicists have demonstrated an accelerating light beam in curved space. Instead of traveling along a geodesic trajectory (the shortest path …

We present a method for efficient and versatile generation of beams whose intensity and phase are prescribed along arbitrary 3D curves. It comprises a non-iterative beam shaping technique …

In this Letter, we demonstrate a new type of curved light beam besides the Airy beam, the so-called “photonic hook.” This photonic hook is a curved high-intensity focus by a dielectric …

Mar 15, 2021 · Starting from the wave equation with a non-zero space curvature, a generalized coordinate-independent expression for the evolution of a light beam on a curved space is …

Jan 12, 2018 · By shining a laser along the inside shell of an incandescent light bulb, physicists have performed the first experimental demonstration of an accelerating light beam in curved …

Oct 10, 2006 · A novel 3 × 3 transfer-matrix method is developed to propagate off-axis Gaussian beams in astigmatic optical systems that may include tilted, displaced, or curved optical …