Pulse generation scheme for flying electromagnetic doughnuts

• Main Authors: Papasimakis, Nikitas, Raybould, Tim, Fedotov, Vassili A., Tsai, Din Ping, Youngs, Ian, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Flying Electromagnetic Doughnuts; Pulse Generation; DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90180; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47202
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Transverse electromagnetic plane waves are fundamental solutions of Maxwells equations. It is less known that a radically different type of solutions has been described theoretically, but has never been realized experimentally, that exist only in the form of short bursts of electromagnetic energy pr...