Self-focusing : past and present : fundamentals and prospects
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Self-focusing : past and present : fundamentals and prospects
（Topics in applied physics, v. 114）
Springer, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to scientists and engineers working with lasers and their applications.
From a practical point of view, self-focusing effects impose a limit on the power that can be transmitted through a material medium. Self-focusing also can reduce the threshold for the occurrence of other nonlinear optical processes. Self-focusing often leads to damage in optical materials and is a limiting factor in the design of high-power laser systems. But it can be harnessed for the design of useful devices such as optical power limiters and switches. At a formal level, the equations for self-focusing are equivalent to those describing Bose-Einstein condensates and certain aspects of plasma physics and hydrodynamics. There is thus a unifying theme between nonlinear optics and these other disciplines.
One of the goals of this book is to connect the extensive early literature on self-focusing, filament-ation, self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at issues such as self-focusing of fs 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. This book consists of 24 chapters. Among them are three reprinted key landmark articles published earlier. It also contains the first publication of the 1964 paper that describes the first laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic evidence.
Table of Contents
Part I. Self-focusing in the Past: Review of Self-Focusing and Self-Trapped Filaments of Light.- Self-Focusing: Theory (Comments).- Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses.- Self-Focusing and Self-Trapping of Optical Beams.- Self-Focusing and Self-Channeling of Laser Radiation: History and Perspectives.- Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci - Adequate Model of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams.- Small-Scale Self-focusing.- Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics.- Super-Gaussian Beams for Suppression of Diffraction and Self-Focusing in High-Power Nd:Glass Laser Amplifiers.- Self-Action Effects, Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Atomic Vapors.- Diffraction and Interference in Supercontinuum Generation.- Reprints of Several Important Papers from the Past.- Part II. Self-focusing in the Present: Self-Trapping of Optical Beams: Spatial Solitons.- Self-Focusing of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments.- Self-Organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air.- The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation.- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Self-focusing.- Some Comments on the History of Self-focusing Theory.- Nonlinear X Waves: Theory and Experiment.- On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-Focusing and Filamentation of fs Pulses.- Self-Focusing and Self-Defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities.- Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self- focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media.- Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2+1)-D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.- Self-Focusing in Photorefractive Crystals.- Measurement of Nonlinear Susceptibilities Using Self-Action Effects (Including Z-scan).
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