Nonlinear optics of a few-cycle optical pulse: Slow-envelope approximation revisited

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 870-875

  Mel'nikov, I V ^a,b   Leblond, Hervé ^c   Sanchez, François ^c   Mihalache, Dumitru ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Femtosecond optical pulses; Optical solitons; Raman shift; Self focusing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSES; OPTICAL SOLITONS; RAMAN SHIFT; SELF-FOCUSING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 10944262394     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.839026     Document Type: Article

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