Ebook: Self-focusing: Past and Present: Fundamentals and Prospects
- Tags: Laser Technology and Physics Photonics, Engineering general, Applied Optics Optoelectronics Optical Devices, Quantum Optics Quantum Electronics Nonlinear Optics
- Series: Topics in Applied Physics 114
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Self-focusing: Past and Present presents a comprehensive treatment of self-focusing and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. It connects the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filamentation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of femtosecond pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. In addition, this text reprints three key articles in the field, as well as the paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.
Self-focusing: Past and Present is of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications, as well as students, researchers, and laser and eye surgeons.
Self-focusing: Past and Present presents a comprehensive treatment of self-focusing and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. It connects the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filamentation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of femtosecond pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. In addition, this text reprints three key articles in the field, as well as the paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.
Self-focusing: Past and Present is of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications, as well as students, researchers, and laser and eye surgeons.
Self-focusing: Past and Present presents a comprehensive treatment of self-focusing and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. It connects the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filamentation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of femtosecond pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. In addition, this text reprints three key articles in the field, as well as the paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.
Self-focusing: Past and Present is of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications, as well as students, researchers, and laser and eye surgeons.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Self-Focusing and Filaments of Light: Past and Present....Pages 3-19
Notes on Early Self-Focusing Papers....Pages 21-102
Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 103-127
Self-Focusing of Optical Beams....Pages 129-143
Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci: Adequate Models of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams in Nonlinear Media....Pages 145-155
Small-Scale Self-focusing....Pages 157-173
Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics....Pages 175-190
Beam Shaping and Suppression of Self-focusing in High-Peak-Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems....Pages 191-229
Self-focusing, Conical Emission, and Other Self-action Effects in Atomic Vapors....Pages 231-251
Periodic Filamentation and Supercontinuum Interference....Pages 253-263
Reprints of Papers from the Past....Pages 267-294
Front Matter....Pages 296-296
Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments....Pages 297-322
Self-organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air....Pages 323-347
The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation....Pages 349-370
Self-focusing and Filamentation of Powerful Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 371-398
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Collapsing Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 399-411
Some Modern Aspects of Self-focusing Theory....Pages 413-438
X-Waves in Self-Focusing of Ultra-Short Pulses....Pages 439-456
On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses with Nonlinear Losses....Pages 457-479
Self-focusing and Self-defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities....Pages 481-506
Front Matter....Pages 296-296
Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self-focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media....Pages 507-516
Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2 + 1)D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation....Pages 517-545
Self-Focusing and Solitons in Photorefractive Media....Pages 547-572
Measuring Nonlinear Refraction and Its Dispersion....Pages 573-591
Back Matter....Pages 593-605
Self-focusing: Past and Present presents a comprehensive treatment of self-focusing and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. It connects the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filamentation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of femtosecond pulses, white light generation, and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10 km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing collapse. In addition, this text reprints three key articles in the field, as well as the paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.
Self-focusing: Past and Present is of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications, as well as students, researchers, and laser and eye surgeons.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Self-Focusing and Filaments of Light: Past and Present....Pages 3-19
Notes on Early Self-Focusing Papers....Pages 21-102
Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 103-127
Self-Focusing of Optical Beams....Pages 129-143
Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci: Adequate Models of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams in Nonlinear Media....Pages 145-155
Small-Scale Self-focusing....Pages 157-173
Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics....Pages 175-190
Beam Shaping and Suppression of Self-focusing in High-Peak-Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems....Pages 191-229
Self-focusing, Conical Emission, and Other Self-action Effects in Atomic Vapors....Pages 231-251
Periodic Filamentation and Supercontinuum Interference....Pages 253-263
Reprints of Papers from the Past....Pages 267-294
Front Matter....Pages 296-296
Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments....Pages 297-322
Self-organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air....Pages 323-347
The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation....Pages 349-370
Self-focusing and Filamentation of Powerful Femtosecond Laser Pulses....Pages 371-398
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Collapsing Ultrashort Laser Pulses....Pages 399-411
Some Modern Aspects of Self-focusing Theory....Pages 413-438
X-Waves in Self-Focusing of Ultra-Short Pulses....Pages 439-456
On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses with Nonlinear Losses....Pages 457-479
Self-focusing and Self-defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities....Pages 481-506
Front Matter....Pages 296-296
Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self-focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media....Pages 507-516
Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2 + 1)D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation....Pages 517-545
Self-Focusing and Solitons in Photorefractive Media....Pages 547-572
Measuring Nonlinear Refraction and Its Dispersion....Pages 573-591
Back Matter....Pages 593-605
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