Airy heat bullets

Selectable output of solitons and self-accelerating pulses via spectral phase modulation and filtering of Airyprime pulses

“…Self-accelerating beams and self-accelerating pulses have received significant attention since the theoretical proposal and experimental verification of optical Airy beams [1,2] . To date, the self-accelerating pulses, typified by Airy pulses, are useful in a variety of applications such as particle manipulation [3] , supercontinuum generation [4] , surface plasmon polarization [5] , light bullets [6] , microscopy [7] and optical routing [8] . Self-accelerating pulses generally only exist in linear media, since nonlinearities such as self-phase modulation (SPM) tend to destroy their accelerating structure.…”