Self-focusing: past and present : fundamentals and prospects

This book constitutes the first comprehensive treatment of self-focusing. Itsintent is to form a bridge between research performed many years ago that gave birth to this field and more recent research aimed at issues such as solitonformation and stability, self-action effects with femtosecond pulses, and self-focusing and filamentation in the atmospheric propagation. Another objectiveof this book is to provide an overview of the development of this field by means of contributions from important contributors to this field, both at present and in the past. Leading scientists from the US, Russia, France, China, Canada, Israel, Italy, Lithuania will contribute chapters. The book contains approximately 25 chapters including one chapter with reprints of several important papers in the past, unknown to new generation of researchers. Enormous audience of people working with lasers and laser beam propagation in various media needs knowledge about self-focusing effects This field regained importance during last ten years because of impressive experiments on femtosecond self-focusing in atmosphere and condensed matter Will constitute the first comprehensive treatment of self-focusing INDICE: From the contents Part I. Self-focusing in the Past: Review of Self-Focusing and Self-Trapped Filaments of Light.- Part II. Self-focusing in thePresent: Self-Trapping of Optical Beams: Spatial Solitons.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-32147-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés