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Self-Focusing Collapse of Higher-Order-Gaussian Beams

Taylor D. Grow and Alexander L. Gaeta

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Abstract

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the collapse dynamics of a higher- order-Gaussian beam in a nonlinear Kerr medium. Suprisingly, we show that the spatial profile collapses to a ring rather than to the Townes profile.

© 2005 Optical Society of America

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