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Few Cycle Optical Pulse Propagation: a detailed calculation

Optics 2008-02-12 v4

Abstract

This document contains my detailed calculation of the Generalised Few-cycle Envelope Approximation (GFEA) propagation equation reported and used in Phys. Rev. A (submitted) and its associated longer version at arXiv.org. This GFEA propagation equation is intended to be applicable to optical pulses only a few cycles long, a regime where the standard Slowly Varying Envelope Approximation (SVEA) fails.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0212014,
  title  = {Few Cycle Optical Pulse Propagation: a detailed calculation},
  author = {P. Kinsler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0212014},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Please read arXiv:0707.0982 instead; the approach in this paper is out-dated. 16 pages, two figures; (v2) improved discussion in Sec.IV (Approximations); (v3) updated references