Multi-filamentation and temporal compression of an elliptical beam in the anomalous dispersion regime

Author

Shim, Bonggu ; Schrauth, Samuel E. ; Gaeta, Alexander L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate spatio-temporal focusing of an elliptically-shaped beam in a bulk mediumwith a Kerr nonlinearity and anomalous dispersion. Strong spatio-temporal localization of the mode is observed via multi-filamentation and temporal compression.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical Kerr effect; optical dispersion; optical pulse compression; spatiotemporal phenomena; Kerr nonlinearity; anomalous dispersion regime; bulk medium; highly elliptical femtosecond laser pulse propagation; multifilamentation; spatio-temporal focusing; spatio-temporal localization; temporal compression; Focusing; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics; (190.3270) Kerr effect; (190.4720) Optical nonlinearities of condensed matter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225465