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The enhancement of the abruptly autofocusing property with multiple circular Airy beams carrying lens phase factors

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To improve the abruptly autofocusing property of circular Airy beam, we propose a method to generate multiple circular Airy beams (MCAB) carrying lens phase factors using a spatial light modulator (SLM). The propagation dynamics of this kind of beam is theoretically simulated, as well as experimentally verified. It is shown that four identical beams are produced symmetrically and they can move toward the center simultaneously. By changing the lens phase information encoded in the SLM, we can achieve different focal positions and focal intensities as we want. With the same parameters, compared with a single circular Airy beam (SCAB), there are two focal planes and the abruptly autofocusing property can be greatly enhanced. It may have some applications in various fields.

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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0503100); National Program for Special Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2016XZZX004-01, 2018FZA5002); The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11474254); Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MIIT) (JCKY2016110B004).

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  1. Physics Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Mingli Sun, Kaikai Huang, Yong Zha & Xuanhui Lu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Huizhu Hu & Nan Li

  3. Institutes of Advanced Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Xian Zhang

  4. School of Electronics Engineering and Computing Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Bocheng Zhu

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Sun, M., Huang, K., Zha, Y. et al. The enhancement of the abruptly autofocusing property with multiple circular Airy beams carrying lens phase factors. Appl. Phys. B 124, 233 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-7102-y

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