Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 35, Issue 9, 1404(2006)
Far-field Properties of Ultrashort Pulsed Gaussian Beams in a Linear Dispersive Medium
Based on the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction integral,the far-field expression for ultrashort pulsed Gaussian beams with constant waist width in a linear dispersive medium is derived without involving the paraxial approximation,and used to study their far-field properties. The expression is applicable to the large diffraction angle. It is found that there exists a critical diffraction angle θc,for the power spectrum of pulsed Gaussian beams with constant waist width. The spectrum is blue-shifted if θ<θc,whereas,for θ>θc,the spectrum is red-shifted,and the redshift increases with increasing θ. Additionally,there is a time shift,which increases with an increase of θ,and the Gaussian pulse form can not remain unchanged in the far field. Finally,the group velocity dispersion results in the chirp,which increases with decreasing diffraction angle.
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Zheng Zhen, Lü Baida. Far-field Properties of Ultrashort Pulsed Gaussian Beams in a Linear Dispersive Medium[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2006, 35(9): 1404
Category: Physical Optics
Received: Jun. 30, 2005
Accepted: --
Published Online: Jun. 3, 2010
The Author Email: Zhen Zheng (jenster1@163.com)
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