Self-focusing: Past and Present: Fundamentals and Prospects Book

Preface v

List of Contributors xxiii

Part I Self-focusing in the Past

1 Self-Focusing and Filaments of Light: Past and Present Y. Ron Shen 3

2 Notes on Early Self-Focusing Papers John H. Marburger 21

Reprint of Review Paper J. H. Marburger, Self-focusing: Theory, Progr. in Quant. Electron., 4, 35-110 (1975)

3 Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses G.M. Fraiman A.G. Litvak V.I. Talanov S.N. Vlasov 103

4 Self-Focusing of Optical Beams R.Y. Chiao T.K. Gustafson P.L. Kelley 129

5 Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci: Adequate Models of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams in Nonlinear Media V.N. Lugovoi A.A. Manenkov 145

6 Small-Scale Self-focusing Anthony J. Campillo 157

7 Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics E. A. Kuznetsov 175

8 Beam Shaping and Suppression of Self-focusing in High-Peak-Power Nd:Glass Laser Systems Svetlana G. Lukishova Yury V. Senatsky Nikolai E. Bykovsky Alexander S. Scheulin 191

9 Self-focusing, Conical Emission, and Other Self-action Effects in Atomic Vapors Petros Zerom Robert W. Boyd 231

10 Periodic Filamentation and Supercontinuum Interference Xiaohui Ni R.R. Alfano 253

11 Reprints of Papers from the past 265

(1) Effects of the Gradient of a Strong Electromagnetic Beam on Electrons and Atoms, Sov. Phys. JETP 15, 1088-1090 (1962)-First paper on self-focusing and self-trapping G.A. Askar'yan

(2) On Self-focusing of Electromagnetic Waves in Nonlinear media, Izv. Vuzov, Radiophysica, 7, 564-565 (1964)-First time translation from Russian V.I. Talanov

(3) Laser-induced Damage in Transparent Media. Presents the first laboratory observation of self-focusing. This paper is published here for thefirst time in its entirety. Previously, only the abstract had been published in J. Opt. Soc. Am., 54, 563 (1964) M. Hercher

Part II Self-focusing in the Present

12 Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments A. Couairon A. Mysyrowicz 297

13 Self-organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air Jie Zhang Zuoqiang Hao Tingting Xi Xin Lu Zhe Zhang Hui Yang Zhan Jin Zhaohua Wang Zhiyi Wei 323

14 The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation See Leang Chin Weiwei Liu Olga G. Kosareva Valerii P. Kandidov 349

15 Self-focusing and Filamentation of Powerful Femtosecond Laser Pulses V.P. Kandidov A.E. Dormidonov O.G. Kosareva S.L. Chin W. Liu 371

16 Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Collapsing Ultrashort Laser Pulses Alexander L. Gaeta 399

17 Some Modern Aspects of Self-focusing Theory Gadi Fibich 413

18 X-Waves in Self-Focusing of Ultra-Short Pulses Claudio Conti Paolo Di Trapani Stefano Trillo 439

19 On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-focusing and Filamentation of Femtosecond Pulses with Nonlinear Losses Eugenijus Gaizauskas Audrius Dubietis Viaceslav Kudriasov Valdas Sirutkaitis Arnaud Couairon Daniele Faccio Paolo Di Trapani 457

20 Self-focusing and Self-defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities Frank W. Wise Jeffrey Moses 481

21 Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self-focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media G.G. Matvienko S.N. Bagaev A.A. Zemlyanov Yu.E. Geints A.M. Kabanov A.N. Stepanov 507

22 Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2 + 1) D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation Sabino Chavez-Cerda Marcelo David Itube-Castillo Jandir Miguel Hickmann 517

23 Self-focusing and Solitons in Photorefractive Media E. DelRe M. Segev 547

24 Measuring Nonlinear Refraction and Its Dispersion Eric W. Van Stryland David J. Hagan 573

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