Space-time break-up in the self-focusing of ultrashort pulses

Authors
Fonseca, EJ Cavalcanti, SB Hickmann, JM
Citation
Ej. Fonseca et al., Space-time break-up in the self-focusing of ultrashort pulses, OPT COMMUN, 169(1-6), 1999, pp. 199-205
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN journal
00304018 → ACNP
Volume
169
Issue
1-6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
199 - 205
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(19991001)169:1-6<199:SBITSO>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
We investigate the effect of rapidly varying perturbations on the initial s tage of the three-dimensional propagation of ultrashort pulses through a no nlinear dispersive medium, in the limit and beyond the slowly varying envel ope approximation. We have found a space-time coupling effect which distort s and reduces the range for which sidebands appear on far-field and tempora l spectrum. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved .