Title :
Femtosecond pulse splitting, supercontinuum generation and conical emission in normally dispersive media
Author :
Luther, G.G. ; Moloney, J.V. ; Wright, E.M. ; Newell, A.C.
Author_Institution :
Arizona Center for Math. Sci., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
We report on a self-consistent theory of critical self-focusing in the presence of normal group velocity dispersion. The underlying physical phenomena are all contained in the spatiotemporal dynamics of short laser pulses described by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS)
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical dispersion; optical self-focusing; spectral line broadening; conical emission; critical self-focusing; femtosecond pulse splitting; nonlinear Schrodinger equation; normal group velocity dispersion; normally dispersive media; physical phenomena; self-consistent theory; short laser pulses; spatiotemporal dynamics; supercontinuum generation; Amplitude modulation; Dispersion; Frequency; Laboratories; Laser theory; Mathematics; Pulse modulation; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Supercontinuum generation; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1473-5
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.1994.470766
