Space-time nonseparable pulses : constructing isodiffracting donut pulses from plane waves and single-cycle pulses

• Main Authors: Zdagkas, Apostolos, Papasimakis, Nikitas, Savinov, Vassili, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Space-time; Isodiffracting
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146017
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Maxwell's equations can be satisfied not only by plane electromagnetic waves, but also by more exotic space-time nonseparable electromagnetic pulses which cannot be represented as a product of time- and space-dependent functions. A family of such pulses with finite energy was identified by Ziol...