Conversion of any finite bandwidth optical field into a shape invariant beam

Abstract

We discuss a method to transform any optical field, with finite frequency bandwidth, into a shape invariant beam with transverse scaling, dependent on the propagation distance. The method consists in modulating the field with a quadratic phase of appropriate curvature radius. As a particular application, we employ the method to extend the existence region of a finite non-diffracting field to an unbounded domain.

9 pages, 10 figures, to appear in OSA Continuum