Self-steepening and self-compression of ultrashort optical pulses in a defocusing cds crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1032-1035

  Lami, J F ^a   Petit, S ^a   Hirlimann, C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; OPTICAL COMPRESSION; TUNABLE OPTICAL SOLITON PROPAGATION; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES;

SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 17444438411     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1032     Document Type: Article

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