Abstract

We demonstrate a class of nondiffracting beams, called frozen waves, with a central spot that can be made to maintain a predefined intensity profile while propagating in an absorbing fluid. Frozen waves are composed of Bessel beams with different transverse and longitudinal wavenumbers, and are generated using a programmable spatial light modulator. The attenuation-resistant frozen waves demonstrated here address the problem of propagation losses in absorbing media. This development can be beneficial for many applications in particle micro-manipulation, data communications, remote sensing, and imaging.

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Production of dynamic frozen waves: controlling shape, location (and speed) of diffraction-resistant beams

Tárcio A. Vieira, Marcos R. R. Gesualdi, Michel Zamboni-Rached, and Erasmo Recami
Opt. Lett. 40(24) 5834-5837 (2015)

Experimental optical trapping with frozen waves

Rafael A. B. Suarez, Leonardo A. Ambrosio, Antonio A. R. Neves, Michel Zamboni-Rached, and Marcos R. R. Gesualdi
Opt. Lett. 45(9) 2514-2517 (2020)

Frozen waves: experimental generation

Tarcio A. Vieira, Marcos R. R. Gesualdi, and Michel Zamboni-Rached
Opt. Lett. 37(11) 2034-2036 (2012)

Diffraction-Attenuation resistant beams in absorbing media

Michel Zamboni-Rached
Opt. Express 14(5) 1804-1809 (2006)

Zeroth-order continuous vector frozen waves for light scattering: exact multipole expansion in the generalized Lorenz–Mie theory

Leonardo André Ambrosio, Michel Zamboni Rached, and Gérard Gouesbet
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(1) 81-89 (2019)