Airy beams from a microchip laser

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates theoretically that a specially designed microchip laser can produce Airy beams, which are self-accelerating and truncated, by using a thin crystal with slightly tilted facets near its edge.

Contribution

It introduces a novel laser design that can generate Airy beams directly from a microchip laser using tilted crystal facets.

Findings

Microchip laser can emit Airy beams under specific conditions.

Tilted facets enable the formation of self-accelerating beams.

Theoretical model predicts beam properties near the crystal edge.

Abstract

It is theoretically shown that an end-pumped microchip laser formed by a thin laser crystal with plane-plane but slightly tilted facets can emit, under appropriate pumping conditions and near a crystal edge, a truncated self-accelerating Airy output beam.