Breakdown of the slowly varying envelope approximation in the self-focusing of ultrashort pulses

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Ranka, JK [1 ]
Gaeta, AL [1 ]
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[1] Cornell Univ, Sch Appl & Engn Phys, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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10.1364/OL.23.000534
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We show theoretically and experimentally that with ultrashort pulses much longer than a single optical cycle, the effects of self-steepening and space-time focusing are important for describing the nonlinear dynamics of self-focusing. Asymmetric temporal splitting of the pulse envelope is observed in which the relative magnitudes of the peaks are reversed as the input power is increased. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.
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