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100 1 _aBrée, Carsten.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNonlinear Optics in the Filamentation Regime
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Carsten Brée.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXVI, 125 p. 35 illus., 21 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
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490 1 _aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
_x2190-5053
505 0 _aTheoretical Foundations of Femtosecond Filamentation -- Pulse Self-Compression in Femtosecond Filaments -- Saturation and Inversion of the All-Optical Kerr Effect.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aLaser Technology, Photonics.
650 2 4 _aPlasma Physics.
650 2 4 _aOptics and Electrodynamics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30930-4
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