Ultrafast light-matter coupling in condensed and gaseous nonlinear media

M. Kolesik; J. M. Brown; K. Schuh; S. W. Koch; J. V. Moloney

doi:10.1117/12.2064270

5 September 2014 Ultrafast light-matter coupling in condensed and gaseous nonlinear media

M. Kolesik, J. M. Brown, K. Schuh, S. W. Koch, J. V. Moloney

Proceedings Volume 9186, Fifty Years of Optical Sciences at The University of Arizona; 91860G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064270
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

After a brief historical review, we describe recent research in the study of tera-Watt class femtosecond lasers propagating in air and condensed media. Here critical self-focusing of the light field reflects the presence of a famous singularity (blow-up in finite time) in the governing Nonlinear Schrö dinger equation (NLS) — this contribution deals with moving into a regime where NLSE fails and more exact optical carrier resolved pulse propagators need to be developed and secondly, addresses the failure of well-established phenomenological nonlinear optical susceptibilities and their replacement by more fundamental quantum models.

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M. Kolesik, J. M. Brown, K. Schuh, S. W. Koch, and J. V. Moloney "Ultrafast light-matter coupling in condensed and gaseous nonlinear media", Proc. SPIE 9186, Fifty Years of Optical Sciences at The University of Arizona, 91860G (5 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064270

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