Airy beam laser.

@article{Porat2011AiryBL,
  title={Airy beam laser.},
  author={G Porat and Ido Dolev and Omri Barlev and Ady Arie},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2011},
  volume={36 20},
  pages={
          4119-21
        }
}
A method to design lasers that emit an arbitrary beam profile is studied. In these lasers, output-coupling is performed by a diffraction grating that imposes a phase and amplitude distribution onto the diffracted light. A solid-state laser emitting beams with a two-dimensional Airy intensity profile is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally. In this case, the diffraction grating adds a transverse cubic phase to the diffracted light. An Airy beam is obtained by performing optical… 
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