Paraxial envelope X waves

Miguel A Porras; Stefano Trillo; Claudio Conti; Paolo Di Trapani

doi:10.1364/ol.28.001090

Paraxial envelope X waves

Opt Lett. 2003 Jul 1;28(13):1090-2. doi: 10.1364/ol.28.001090.

Authors

Miguel A Porras¹, Stefano Trillo, Claudio Conti, Paolo Di Trapani

Affiliation

¹ Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela de Ingenieros de Madrid, Universidad Politècnica de Madrid, Rios Rosas 21, 28003 Madrid, Spain. [email protected]

PMID: 12879917
DOI: 10.1364/ol.28.001090

Abstract

Localized, stationary, X-type solutions of the paraxial wave equation are described. Unlike conventional X waves, these are luminal, envelope X waves sustained by a material medium because of the interplay of dispersion and diffraction.