Sub-Wavelength Nonlinear Accelerating Beams

Abstract

We show that optical nonlinearities allow sub-wavelength beams to propagate in circular trajectories without being attenuated in spite of their partially evanescent spectrum. Such beams are exact solutions to Maxwell's equations with Kerr or saturable nonlinearity.

Submitted to the conference "Nonlinear Photonics 2012" on February 27 2012 (accepted). 2 pages

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