Correcting the Failure of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation for Short Pulses

Deborah Alterman; Jeffrey Rauch

doi:10.1364/UP.2000.MF20

Ultrafast Phenomena
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000),
paper MF20
•https://doi.org/10.1364/UP.2000.MF20

Correcting the Failure of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation for Short Pulses

Deborah Alterman and Jeffrey Rauch

International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2000

Charleston, South Carolina United States
ISBN: 1-55752-640-0

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D. Alterman and J. Rauch, "Correcting the Failure of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation for Short Pulses," in Ultrafast Phenomena, T. Li, ed., Vol. 43 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2000), paper MF20.

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Abstract

The slowly varying amplitude assumption, a useful simplification, is invalid for few cycle pulses. We offer a rigorously justified alternative, valid for short pulses, which leads to qualitatively different behaviors.

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