Open AccessOn the propagation of truncated localized waves in dispersive silica
Author(s) -
Mohamed A. Salem,
Hakan Bağcı
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.18.025482
Subject(s) - optics , distortion (music) , physics , wave propagation , free space , space (punctuation) , transverse plane , linearity , dispersion relation , quantum mechanics , amplifier , linguistics , philosophy , optoelectronics , structural engineering , cmos , engineering
Propagation characteristics of truncated Localized Waves propagating in dispersive silica and free space are numerically analyzed. It is shown that those characteristics are affected by the changes in the relation between the transverse spatial spectral components and the wave vector. Numerical experiments demonstrate that as the non-linearity of this relation gets stronger, the pulses propagating in silica become more immune to decay and distortion whereas the pulses propagating in free-space suffer from early decay and distortion.