Carrier wave shocking of femtosecond optical pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2488-2491

  Flesch, R G ^a   Pushkarev, A ^a   Moloney, J V ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTEGRATION; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SHOCK WAVES;

CARRIER SHOCK FORMATION; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSES; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; LORENTZ RESPONSE; PHASE GROUP VELOCITY MISMATCH; SELF STEEPENING EFFECTS; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030130096     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2488     Document Type: Article

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