Mirror laser airy beams
S.N. Khonina, S.G.Volotovsky

Image Processing Systems Institute of the RAS,
Samara State Aerospace University

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
The new type of the limited Airy beams, representing superposition of truncated on n-th zero (or extremum) displaced and mirror reflected Airy functions, is considered. Distribution of such mirror Airy beams smoothly sewed in a place of truncation, reminds even and odd Hermite-Gaussian modes. However they do not keep the shape in a far zone, and their spectrum is described by cosine function of nonlinear argument (with cubic and linear dependence). At propagation mirror Airy beams show symmetric acceleration in opposite sides, i.e. the divergence proportional to a square of the passed distance.

Key words:
laser modes, laser Airy beams, spectral properties, a deviation from rectilinear propagation and acceleration, mirror Airy beams.

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