Abstract
Introducing angular dispersion into a pulsed field tilts the pulse front with respect to the phase front. There exists between the angular dispersion and pulse-front tilt a universal relationship that is device-independent, and also independent of the pulse shape and bandwidth. We show here that this relationship is violated by propagation-invariant space–time (ST) wave packets, which are pulsed beams endowed with precise spatiotemporal structure corresponding to a particular form of angular dispersion. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that ST wave packets represent, to the best of our knowledge, the first example in optics of non-differentiable angular dispersion, resulting in pulse-front tilt that depends on the square-root of the pulse bandwidth.
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