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Collapse of optical pulses
Abstract
Under the combined effect of diffraction, anomalous dispersion, and nonlinear refraction, an optical pulse can collapse simultaneously in time and space. Such a collapse could yield short pulses with extremely large optical fields. Light bullets-pulses that propagate without change in space or time-are also possible. The condition for such a collapse and possible experiments are discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Silberberg, Y.
- Venue
- Optics Letters
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 1990-11-15
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 1282
- ISSN
- 0146-9592 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-4794
- OpenAlex
- W2028836113
- Cited by
- 814
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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