Speaker
Prof.
Andrew Forbes
(U. Witwatersrand)
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In this non-specialist talk I will outline how to make light accelerate as it propagates. Using digital holograms to create and propagate structured light fields, I will illustrate linear acceleration with Airy beams and angular acceleration with vortex beams.
Primary author
Prof.
Andrew Forbes
(U. Witwatersrand)
