Carrier Wave Shocking of Femtosecond Optical Pulses
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (14) , 2488-2491
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.2488
Abstract
Numerical integration of Maxwell's equations for propagation of a femtosecond pulse in a medium with linear Lorentz response and a Kerr nonlinearity shows shock formation on the underlying carrier wave prior to the envelope shock. The carrier shock is characterized by the appearance of a strong third harmonic pulse, whereas the envelope shock appears later as spectral broadening and modulation of the fundamental and higher harmonic spectral features.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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