Sidelobe suppression for accelerating beams

Abstract

Although the control of trajectory, amplitude and beam-width in accelerating beams have been extensively investigated, sidelobes manipulation of such beams, which is required in many applications, has been surprisingly under-researched. This paper presents an approach for the generating of accelerating beams with significantly reduced sidelobes. The proposed method encompasses a two-step angular spectrum design, including employing a general model to establish the phase distribution and applying a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm to optimize the binary amplitude modulation. Experimental results confirm that the sidelobe intensity of accelerating beams can be reduced by over 50% with our method, thereby enhancing their applicability in many fields, such as micro-machining, particle manipulation, and optical communication.