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Beam Splitting by the Use of Waveguide Airy Beams

  • Kim, Kyoung-Youm (Department of Optical Engineering, Sejong University) ;
  • Kim, Sae-Hwa (Department of Information Communications Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
  • Received : 2011.08.09
  • Accepted : 2011.11.24
  • Published : 2011.12.25
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Abstract

Here we report Airy beams coupled with waveguide modes. These waveguide Airy (WAiry) beams propagate through layered planar structures inheriting the characteristics of waveguide modes as well as those of Airy beams, such as diffraction-free and accelerating features. In particular, we focus on the WAiry beams associated with backward waveguide modes, showing that the backward feature can alter the trajectories of the WAiry beams significantly. Based on this, we propose a new scheme of waveguide-type polarization/power beam splitters.

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