Paraxial Accelerating Beams Along a Sharply Curved Path

Sharply accelerating beams are commonly believed to exist only under non-paraxial conditions. Here we demonstrate that paraxial accelerating beams can be designed to travel along a steep parabolic path that conventional Airy beams cannot follow.

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