TY - JOUR
T1 - Extreme carrier shocking of intense long-wavelength pulses
AU - Whalen, Patrick
AU - Panagiotopoulos, Paris
AU - Kolesik, Miroslav
AU - Moloney, Jerome V.
PY - 2014/2/28
Y1 - 2014/2/28
N2 - We predict a paradigm shift in the nonlinear physics associated with ultrashort long-wavelength pulse propagation in gaseous and condensed media. Optical carrier shock formation, which profoundly modifies the underlying optical wave form, emerges prior to the onset of the well-known self-focusing collapse singularity. The canonical description of pulse propagation in this regime, where all nonlinear envelope descriptions fail, is identified as the full field carrier resolved modified Kadomtsev-Petviashili (MKP) equation.
AB - We predict a paradigm shift in the nonlinear physics associated with ultrashort long-wavelength pulse propagation in gaseous and condensed media. Optical carrier shock formation, which profoundly modifies the underlying optical wave form, emerges prior to the onset of the well-known self-focusing collapse singularity. The canonical description of pulse propagation in this regime, where all nonlinear envelope descriptions fail, is identified as the full field carrier resolved modified Kadomtsev-Petviashili (MKP) equation.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.023850
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.023850
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84897687737
SN - 1050-2947
VL - 89
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 023850
ER -