Non-Diffracting Waves Hernández-Figueroa • Recami Zamboni-Rached (Eds.) 9 783527 411955 ISBN 978-3-527-41195-5 T his continuation and extension of the successful monograph Localized Waves by the same editors brings together leading researchers in non-diffracting waves to cover the most important results in their field, and as such is the first to present the current state. The well-balanced presentation of theory and experiments guides readers through the background of different types of non-diffracting waves, their generation, propagation, and possible applications. The authors include a historical account of the development of the field and cover different types of non-diffracting waves, including Frozen Waves, Airy waves and realistic, finite-energy solutions suitable for experimental realization. Apart from basic research, the results and concepts explained can be applied to a wide range of technologies, from wireless and free-space communication to acoustics and bio-medicine. Hugo Enrique Hernández-Figueroa is a Full Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univer- sity of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is a Fellow of the OSA, a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Light- wave Technology. His research interests concentrate on a wide variety of wave electromagnetic phenomena and applica- tions mainly in photonics and microwaves. Michel Zamboni-Rached is a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer En- gineering of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. His research interests focus on electromagnetic field theory, theory and applications of localized waves (in electromagnetism, acoustics, and wave mechanics), optics, optical communicati- ons, and some topics in theoretical physics. Erasmo Recami is a retired Professor at Bergamo State University, Italy, and Senior Associate at INFN-Milan, Italy. He is the author of hundreds of scientific publicati- ons. His current research activity includes tunneling times, structure of leptons and spinning particles, application of the gene- ral relativity methods to strong interactions, non-restricted Special Relativity, and, among the others, the superluminal peak- velocities associated with the localized solutions to Maxwell Equations and to (quantum or classical) tunnelings. www.wiley-vch.de Edited by Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa, Erasmo Recami, and Michel Zamboni-Rached Non-Diffracting Waves From the contents: • Non-Diffracting Waves: An Introduction • Localized Waves: Historical and Personal Perspectives • Applications of Propagation Invariant Light Fields • X-Type Waves in Ultrafast Optics • Limited-Diffraction Beams for High-Frame-Rate Imaging • Spatiotemporally Localized Null Electromagnetic Waves • Linearly Traveling and Accelerating Localized Wave Solutions to the Schrödinger and Schrödinger-Like Equations • Rogue X-Waves • Quantum X-Waves and Applications in Nonlinear Optics • TE and TM Optical Localized Beams • Spatiotemporal Localization of Ultrashort-Pulsed Bessel Beams at Extremely Low Light Level • Adaptive Shaping of Nondiffracting Wavepackets for Applications in Ultrashort Pulse Diagnostics • Localized Waves Emanated by Pulsed Sources: The Riemann–Volterra Approach • Propagation-Invariant Optical Beams and Pulses • Diffractionless Nanobeams Produced by Multiple- Waveguide Metallic Nanostructures • Low-Cost 2D Collimation of Real-Time Pulsed Ultra- sonic Beams by X-Wave-Based High-Voltage Driving of Annular Arrays • Localized Beams and Localized Pulses: Generation Using the Angular Spectrum • Lossy Light Bullets • Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Composed Pupils • Experimental Generation of Frozen Waves in Optics: Control of Longitudinal and Transverse Shape of Optical Nondiffracting Waves • Airy Shaped Waves • Solitons and Ultra-Short Optical Waves: The Short- Pulse Equation Versus the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation