Self-similar optical wave collapse: Observation of the Townes profile

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Moll, K D ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Fibich, Gadi ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION; OPTICAL WAVE; SYMMETRIC SHAPE; TOWNES PROFILE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038804031     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. P. L. Kelley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 1005 (1965).
2. D. N. Christodoulides and M. I. Carvalho, Opt. Lett. 19, 1714 (1994).
3. B. W. Zeff, B. Kleber, J. Fineberg, and D. P. Lathrop, Nature (London) 403, 401 (2000).
4. P. A. Robinson, Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 507 (1997).
5. G. Fibich and A. L. Gaeta, Opt. Lett. 25, 335 (2000).
6. M. J. Landman, G. C. Papanicolaou, C. Sulem, P. L. Sulem, and X. P. Wang, Physica (Amsterdam) 47D, 393 (1991).
7. B. Gross and J. T. Manassah, Phys. Lett. A 169, 371 (1992).
8. G. Fibich and G. C. Papanicolaou,SIAM J. Appl. Math. 60, 183 (1999).
9. M. Landman, G. C. Papanicolaou, C. Sulem, P. L. Sulem, and X. P. Wang, Phys. Rev. A 46, 7869 (1992).
10. Y. Martel and F. Merle, Ann. Math. 155, 235 (2002).
11. C. Fermanian Kammerer, F. Merle, and H. Zaag, Math. Ann. 317, 347 (2000).
12. G. C. Papanicolaou, C. Sulem, P. L. Sulem, and X. P. Wang, Physica (Amsterdam) 72D, 61 (1994).
13. G. I. Stegeman and M. Segev, Science 286, 1518 (1999).
14. R. Y. Chiao, E. Garmire, and C. H. Townes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 479 (1964).
15. G. Fibich and B. Ilan, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 1749 (2000).
16. G. Fibich and B. Ilan, Physica (Amsterdam) 157D, 112 (2001).
17. F. Merle and Y. Tsutsumi, J. Diff. Equ. 84, 205 (1990).
18. H. Nawa and M. Tsutsumi, Funkcial. Ekvac. 32, 417 (1989).
19. J. K. Ranka, R. W. Schirmer, and A. L. Gaeta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3783 (1996).
20. A. L. Gaeta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3582 (2000).
21. G. Fibich, V. M. Malkin, and G. C. Papanicolaou, Phys. Rev. A 52 (4218) (1995).
22. F. Demartini, C. H. Townes, T. K. Gustafson, and P. L. Kelley, Phys. Rev. 164, 312 (1967).
23. J. E. Rothenberg and D. Grischkowsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 531 (1989).
24. P. B. Corkum, C. Rolland, and T. Srinivasan-Rao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 2268 (1986).
25. P. Nozieres and D. Pines, The Theory of Quantum Liquids (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, 1990), Vol. II.
26. A. Braun et al., Opt. Lett. 20, 73 (1995).
27. J. Kasparian, R. Sauerbrey, and S. L. Chin, Appl. Phys. B 71, 877 (2000).
28. S. Tzortzakis et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5470 (2001).
29. M. Mlejnek, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney, Opt. Lett. 23, 382 (1998).
30. A. Talebprour, S. Petit, and S. L. Chin, Opt. Commun. 171, 285 (1999).
31. S. N. Vlasov, L. V. Piskunova, and V. I. Talanov, Sov. Phys. JETP 68, 1125 (1989).
32. K. D. Moll, H. K. Ng, and A. L. Gaeta (unpublished).