@inproceedings{6256c19de82442419e2238462fc4ef8c,
title = "Ultrafast light-matter coupling in condensed and gaseous nonlinear media",
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 Schr{\"o} 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.",
author = "M. Kolesik and Brown, \{J. M.\} and K. Schuh and Koch, \{S. W.\} and Moloney, \{J. V.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; 50 Years of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona ; Conference date: 19-08-2014 Through 20-08-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2064270",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Greivenkamp, \{John E.\} and Dereniak, \{Eustace L.\} and Barrett, \{Harrison H.\}",
booktitle = "Fifty Years of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona",
}