Research Catalog

Title

• Self-focusing, past and present : fundamentals and prospects / Robert W. Boyd, Svetlana G. Lukishova, Y. R. Shen, eds.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Boyd, Robert W., 1948-
• Lukishova, Svetlana G.
• Shen, Y. R.

Description

xxvii, 605 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

• Topics in applied physics, 0303-4216, v. 114

Uniform Title

• Topics in applied physics 114.
• Topics in applied physics ; v. 114.

Alternative Title

Self-focusing

Subject

• Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices
• Engineering
• Engineering, general
• Femtosecond lasers
• Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics
• Laser beams
• Laser physics
• Laser pulses, Ultrashort
• Lasers
• Models, Theoretical
• Nonlinear optics
• Physical Phenomena
• Physical optics
• Physics
• Physics
• Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics
• Quantum optics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Self-focusing in the Past -- Self-Focusing and Filaments of Light: Past and Present -- Notes on Early Self-Focusing Papers -- Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses -- Self-Focusing of Optical Beams -- Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci: Adequate Models of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams in Nonlinear Media -- Small-Scale Self-focusing -- Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics -- Beam Shaping and Suppression of Self-focusing in High-Peak-Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems -- Self-focusing, Conical Emission, and Other Self-action Effects in Atomic Vapors -- Periodic Filamentation and Supercontinuum Interference -- Reprints of Papers from the Past -- Self-focusing in the Past -- Self-focusing and Filamentation 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 -- Self-focusing and Filamentation of Powerful Femtosecond Laser Pulses -- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Collapsing Ultrashort Laser Pulses -- Some Modern Aspects of Self-focusing Theory -- X-Waves in Self-Focusing of Ultra-Short Pulses -- On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses with Nonlinear Losses -- 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 Schrödinger Equation -- Self-Focusing and Solitons in Photorefractive Media -- Measuring Nonlinear Refraction and Its Dispersion.

ISBN

• 9780387321479 (acid-free paper)
• 0387321470 (acid-free paper)
• 9780387347271 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)
• 0387347275 (e-ISBN) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2008938966

OCLC

227032801

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library