Spatially induced Airy-Bessel light bullets

Abstract

Based on wave equation, we theoretically study the effect of spatially induced group velocity dispersion (SIGVD) of pulsed Bessel light beam propagation in free space. The results show that the third-order SIGVD can make pulsed Bessel beam gradually evolve into temporally Airy distribution. Airy-Bessel wave packet is such an exotic localized optical wave packet that it can possibly serve versatile tool in the research of light-matter interactions and has extensive applications. Hence we demonstrate the realization scheme of Airy-Bessel light bullets in free space by compensating the second-order SIGVD through utilizing dispersion management technique. To analyze the spatiotemporal propagation properties, we numerically simulate this light bullet propagation in a dispersion medium. The results show that it can retain spatial diffraction-free and temporal dispersion-free propagation in medium.