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

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 534-536

  Ranka, Jinendra K ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

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EID: 0000452075     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.000534     Document Type: Article

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