Nonparaxial near-nondiffracting accelerating optical beams (Q2358812)

This paper presents new near non-diffracting beams (like Airy beams) to Maxwell's equation in free space, in cylinders or bounded domains. The procedure to construct such solutions in bounded or cylindrical domains uses the reduction of the Maxwell's equations in harmonic regime to a Helmholtz equation provided by \textit{P. Ola} and \textit{E. Somersalo} [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 56, No. 4, 1129--1145 (1996; Zbl 0858.35138)]. Then using complex geometric optics with nonlinear phases as in [\textit{C. E. Kenig} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 165, No. 2, 567--591 (2007; Zbl 1127.35079)], the authors construct a solution to the Helmholtz equation of the form \[ e^{\tau(\varphi+i\psi)}(A(x)+R(x)),\quad \|R\|_2\leq \frac{c}{\tau} \] where \(\tau\) is the (high) spatial frequency parameter. The phase \(\varphi\) satisfies the limiting Carleman estimate which provides only a finite number of genuine solutions among which the author choose \(\varphi=x_1\) in the cylindrical domain and \(\varphi=-\log(|x|)\) in the bounded domain. Then \(\psi\) and \(A\) solve usual the Eikonal and transport equation. Deducing solution to Maxwell's equations requires a unicity result for the Helmholtz equation in weighted \(L^2\) spaces. Using the Kelvin transform which is an involution sending spheres to planes, the authors construct an other solution as above with spherical phase from a plane wave solution in the transformed space.