Nonlinear optics in the filamentation regime /
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| Author / Creator: | Brée, Carsten. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Springer theses, 2190-5053 Springer theses. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Dissertations Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8900970 |
| Summary: | This thesis provides deep insights into currently controversial questions in laser filamentation, a highly complex phenomenon involving nonlinear optical effects and plasma physics. First, based on the concrete picture of a femtosecond laser beam which self-pinches its radial intensity distribution, the thesis delivers a novel explanation for the remarkable and previously unexplained phenomenon of pulse self-compression in filaments. Moreover, the work addresses the impact of a non-adiabatic change of both nonlinearity and dispersion on such an intense femtosecond pulse transiting from a gaseous dielectric material to a solid one. Finally, and probably most importantly, the author presents a simple and highly practical theoretical approach for quantitatively estimating the influence of higher-order nonlinear optical effects in optics. These results shed new light on recent experimental observations, which are still hotly debated and may completely change our understanding of filamentation, causing a paradigm change concerning the role of higher-order nonlinearities in optics. |
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| Item Description: | "Doctoral thesis accepted by the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany"--T.p. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783642309304 3642309305 9783642309298 |
| ISSN: | 2190-5053 |