title: Loss-proof self-accelerating beams and their use in non-paraxial manipulation of particles' trajectories.
abstract: Self-accelerating beams--shape-preserving bending beams--are attracting great interest, offering applications in many areas such as particle micromanipulation, microscopy, induction of plasma channels, surface plasmons, laser machining, nonlinear frequency conversion and electron beams. Most of these applications involve light-matter interactions, hence their propagation range is limited by absorption. We propose loss-proof accelerating beams that overcome linear and nonlinear losses. These beams, as analytic solutions of Maxwell's equations with losses, propagate in absorbing media while maintaining their peak intensity. While the power such beams carry decays during propagation, the peak intensity and the structure of their main lobe region are maintained over large distances. We use these beams for manipulation of particles in fluids, steering the particles to steeper angles than ever demonstrated. Such beams offer many additional applications, such as loss-proof self-bending plasmons. In transparent media these beams show exponential intensity growth, which facilitates other novel applications in micromanipulation and ignition of nonlinear processes.
authors.affiliation: 1] Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel [2].
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schley
authors.affiliation: 1] Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel [2].
authors.forename: Ido
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kaminer
authors.affiliation: 1] Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel [2].
authors.forename: Elad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Greenfield
authors.affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Rivka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bekenstein
authors.affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Yaakov
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lumer
authors.affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Mordechai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segev