Abstract
We demonstrate the nonlinear control of self-accelerating Airy beams. We show that under both self-focusing/defocusing nonlinearities, the ballistic trajectory of an Airy beam persists while its spatial spectrum reshapes, leading to distance-dependent negative/positive spectral defects.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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