Ultra-short pulses in linear and nonlinear media

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DOI10.1088/0951-7715/18/3/021zbMATH Open1125.35412arXivnlin/0408020OpenAlexW1973517506MaRDI QIDQ3025249FDOQ3025249


Authors: Yeojin Chung, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Tobias Schäfer, C. Eugene Wayne Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 July 2005

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the evolution of ultra-short optical pulses in linear and nonlinear media. For the linear case, we first show that the initial-boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations in which a pulse is injected into a quiescent medium at the left endpoint can be approximated by a linear wave equation which can then be further reduced to the linear short-pulse equation. A rigorous proof is given that the solution of the short pulse equation stays close to the solutions of the original wave equation over the time scales expected from the multiple scales derivation of the short pulse equation. For the nonlinear case we compare the predictions of the traditional nonlinear Schr"odinger equation (NLSE) approximation which those of the short pulse equation (SPE). We show that both equations can be derived from Maxwell's equations using the renormalization group method, thus bringing out the contrasting scales. The numerical comparison of both equations to Maxwell's equations shows clearly that as the pulse length shortens, the NLSE approximation becomes steadily less accurate while the short pulse equation provides a better and better approximation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0408020




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