We demonstrate experimentally the manipulation of Airy surface plasmon beams in a linear potential. For this purpose, we fabricate dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures with a graded refractive index by negative-tone gray-scale electron beam lithography. Using such carefully engineered potentials, we show that the bending of an Airy surface plasmon beam can be fully reversed by the potential.

We investigate the acceleration dynamics of quasi-diffraction-free Airy beams in both one- and two-dimensional configurations. We show that this class of finite energy waves can retain their intensity features over several diffraction lengths. The possibility of other physical realizations involving spatiotemporal Airy wave packets is also considered.

The small crater Airy-0 was selected from Mariner 9 images to be the reference for the Mars prime meridian. Initial analyses in the year 2000 tied Viking Orbiter and Mars Orbiter Camera images of Airy-0 to the evolving Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter global digital terrain model to update the location of Airy-0. Based upon this tie and radiometric tracking of landers/rovers from Earth, new express...

In the present study, stress analysis and explicit solution of rectangular plate with arbitrarily located circular hole, subjected to linear normal stresses on two opposite edges, has been investigated. Airy function and hoop stresses occurring at the edge of the circular have been computed. In this method 2D dimension elasticity and Airy stress function was used. The present method for explici...

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A class of symmetry transformations a type originally introduced in nonlinear optics context is used here to isolate an integrable Ermakov-Painlev´e II reduction resonant NLS equation which encapsulates system cold plasma physics descriptive the uniaxial propagation magneto-acoustic waves. B¨acklund transformation employed the iterative generation novel classes solutions involve either Yab...

In this paper a higher order non–linear differential equation is given and it becomes a higher order Airy equation (in our terminology) under the Cole–Hopf transformation. For the even case a solution is explicitly constructed, which is a generalization of the Airy function. We start with an example to state our motivation. For the simple non–linear equation of Riccati type y + y = x (1) with a...