Optical phase-space modes, self-focusing, and the wavelength as tunable ħ

Publisher: IOP Publishing

E-ISSN: 1402-4896|90|12|128003-128007

ISSN: 1402-4896

Source: Physica Scripta, Vol.90, Iss.12, 2015-12, pp. : 128003-128007

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Abstract

The Hamiltonian optics notion of phase-space modes is shown to be central to understanding self-focusing, multiple filamentation, and the λ2 scaling of the self-focusing threshold with the radiation wavelength λ.