Cylindrically Polarized Nondiffracting Optical Pulses

TL;DR

This paper introduces cylindrically polarized nondiffracting optical pulses, specifically cylindrically polarized X-waves, extending polarization concepts to polychromatic, non-diffracting light in both paraxial and nonparaxial regimes.

Contribution

It presents the first explicit expressions for cylindrically polarized nondiffracting pulses, expanding polarization control in polychromatic optical fields.

Findings

Explicit electric and magnetic field expressions for cylindrically polarized X-waves.

Extension of polarization concepts to polychromatic, nondiffracting pulses.

Analysis in both paraxial and nonparaxial regimes.

Abstract

We extend the concept of radially and azimuthally polarized optical beams to the polychromatic domain by introducing cylindrically polarized nondiffracting optical pulses. In particular, we discuss in detail the case of cylindrically polarized X-waves, both in the paraxial and nonparaxial regime. The explicit expressions for the electric and magnetic fields of cylindrically polarized X-waves is also reported.