Abstract

We describe theoretically and verify experimentally a novel, to the best of our knowledge, class of diffraction-free pulsed optical beams that are “omni-resonant”: they have the remarkable property of transmission through planar Fabry–Perot resonators without spectral filtering, even if their bandwidth far exceeds the cavity linewidth. Ultrashort wave packets endowed with a specific spatiotemporal structure couple to a single resonant mode independent of its linewidth. We confirm that such “space–time” omni-resonant wave packets retain their bandwidth (1.6 nm), spatiotemporal profile (1.3-ps pulse width, 4-µm beam width), and diffraction-free behavior upon transmission through cavities with resonant linewidths of 0.3 nm and 0.15 nm.

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Refraction of space–time wave packets in a dispersive medium

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Opt. Lett. 47(7) 1630-1633 (2022)

Isochronous space–time wave packets

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Opt. Lett. 46(10) 2260-2263 (2021)

Broadband space-time wave packets propagating 70  m

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Space-time wave packets

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Arbitrarily accelerating space-time wave packets

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Opt. Lett. 47(3) 694-697 (2022)