Archive | 2019
General Practical Considerations
Abstract
Supercontinuum generation in transparent bulk media results from femtosecond filamentation, which involves a complex interplay among linear (diffraction and GVD) and nonlinear effects (self-focusing, self-phase modulation, pulse-front steepening, generation of optical shocks, multiphoton absorption/ionization, free-electron plasma generation, etc.), which become coupled in space and time.