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Self-focusing: Past and Present - Fundamentals and Prospects (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Self-focusing: Past and Present - Fundamentals and Prospects (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 114
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Self-focusing has been an area of active scientific investigation
for nearly 50 years. This book presents a comprehensive treatment
of this topic and reviews both theoretical and experimental
investigations of self-focusing. This book should be of interest to
scientists and engineers working with lasers and their
applications. From a practical point of view, self-focusing effects
impose a limit on the power that can be transmitted through a
material medium. Self-focusing also can reduce the threshold for
the occurrence of other nonlinear optical processes. Self-focusing
often leads to damage in optical materials and is a limiting factor
in the design of high-power laser systems. But it can be harnessed
for the design of useful devices such as optical power limiters and
switches. At a formal level, the equations for self-focusing are
equivalent to those describing Bose-Einstein condensates and
certain aspects of plasma physics and hydrodynamics. There is thus
a unifying theme between nonlinear optics and these other
disciplines. One of the goals of this book is to connect the
extensive early literature on self-focusing, filament-ation,
self-trapping, and collapse with more recent studies aimed at
issues such as self-focusing of fs pulses, white light generation,
and the generation of filaments in air with lengths of more than 10
km. It also describes some modern advances in self-focusing theory
including the influence of beam nonparaxiality on self-focusing
collapse. This book consists of 24 chapters. Among them are three
reprinted key landmark articles published earlier. It also contains
the first publication of the 1964 paper that describes the first
laboratory observation of self-focusing phenomena with photographic
evidence.
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