Figure 2

Characteristics of Airy beam.
(a) Measurement of beam acceleration of the Airy beam OPO as a function of propagation distance. Solid line (black) represents theoretically predicted acceleration, (red) is the quadratic fit to the experimental data (dots). (Inset) Variation in the width (FWHM) of the central lobe of the Airy beam over propagation. Solid line (red) is linear fit to data (dots). (b–e) Verification of self-healing property of the output beam of the Airy beam OPO. (f) The line profile of the beam at a distance z = 10 cm (blue), z = 60 cm (red), z = 120 cm (brown) from the Fourier plane.