Temporal compression of self-focusing femtosecond pulses in silica glasses

Hélène Ward; Luc Bergé

doi:10.1364/NLGW.2002.NLMD12

Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
paper NLMD12
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLGW.2002.NLMD12

Temporal compression of self-focusing femtosecond pulses in silica glasses

Hélène Ward and Luc Bergé

Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications 2002

Stresa Italy
1–4 September 2002
ISBN: 1-55752-723-7

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H. Ward and L. Bergé, "Temporal compression of self-focusing femtosecond pulses in silica glasses," in Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, A. Sawchuk, ed., Vol. 80 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002), paper NLMD12.

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Abstract

Compression of femtosecond pulses to a few optical-cycles duration by coupling with an electron plasma in solids is shown. Nonlinear dissipation induced by multiphoton-absorption, and fast temporal modulations induced shock-terms can, however, maintain self-guided propagation.

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