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Isolated waveguide modes of high-intensity light fields

A. M. Zheltikov

Physics Department, International Laser Center, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract: Isolated waveguide modes of intense light fields are unique physical objects, which can never be observed in standard optical fibers, hollow waveguides, plasma filaments, or in the bulk of a transparent dielectric or gas. Hollow photonic-crystal fibers can for the first time produce robust isolated truly guided spatial modes of subgigawatt ultrashort light pulses, perform efficient nonlinear-optical transformations of laser fields in such states, and implement new waveguide regimes of coherent excitation and probing of molecular Raman-active modes in the gas phase.

PACS: 42.65.Dr, 42.65.Ky, 42.65.Re, 42.65.Wi

Received: June 9, 2004
Revised: July 21, 2004

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0174.200412b.1301

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2004, 47:12, 1205–1220

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