[1] [1] B. Schenkel, J. Biegert, and U. Keller. “Generation of 3.8-fs pulses from adaptive compression of a cashed hollow fiber supercontinuum,” Opt. Lett. 28, pp. 1987-1989, 2003

[2] [2] I. P. Christov, “Propagation of femtosecond light pulses,” Opt. Commun. 53, pp. 364-366, 1985

[3] [3] T. Brabec and F. Krausz, “Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation in the Single-Cycle Regime,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, pp. 3282-3285, 1997

[4] [4] M. A. Porras, “Nonsinusoidal few-cycle pulsed light beams in free space,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, pp. 1468-1474, 1999

[5] [5] M. A. Porras, “Propagation of single-cycle pulsed light beams in dispersive media,” Phys. Rev. A, 60, pp. 5069-5073, 1999

[6] [6] T. Brabec and F. Krausz, “Intense few-cycle laser fields: Frontiers of nonlinear optics,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 72, pp. 545-591, 2000

[7] [7] P. L. Kelly, “Self-Focusing of Optical Beams,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 15, pp. 1005-1008, 1965

[8] [8] S. C. Wen and D. Y. Fan, “Small-scale self-focusing of intense laser beams in the presence of vector effect,” Chin. Phys. Lett. 17, pp. 731-733, 2000

[9] [9] K. A. Bruecker and S. Jorna, “Laser-driven fusion,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 46, pp. 325-367, 1974

[10] [10] S. Skupsky and K. Lee, “Uniformity of energy deposition for laser driven fusion,” J Appl. Phys. 54, pp. 3662-3671, 1983

[11] [11] J. T. Hunt, P. A. Renard, and W. W. Simmons, “Improved performance of fusion lasers using the imaging properties of multiple spatial filters,” App. Opt. 16, pp. 779-782, 1977

[12] [12] S. Skupsky, R. W. Short, T. Kessler, R. S. Craxton, S. Letzring, and J. M. Soures, “Improved laser-beam uniformity using the angular dispersion of frequency-modulated light,” J. Appl. Phys. 66, pp. 3456-3462, 1989

[13] [13] H. Nakano, K. Tsubakimoto, N. Miyanaga, M. Nakatsuka, T. Kanabe, H. Azechi, T. Jitsuno, and S. Nakai, “Spectrally dispersed amplified spontaneous emission for improving irradiation uniformity into high power Nd:glass laser system,” J. Appl. Phys. 73, pp. 2122-2130, 1993

[14] [14] J. E. Rothenberg, “Comparison of beam-smoothing methods for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 14, pp. 1664-1671, 1997

[15] [15] H. A. Rose and S. Ghosal, “Effect of smoothing by spectral dispersion on flow induced laser beam deflection: the random phase modulation scheme,” Physics of Plasmas 5, pp. 775-781, 1998

[16] [16] G. Miyaji, N. Miyanaga, S. Urushihara, K. Suzuki, S. Matsuoka, M. Nakatsuka, A. Morimoto, and T. Kobayashi, “Three-directional spectral dispersion for smoothing of a laser irradiance profile,” Opt. Lett. 27, pp. 725-727, 2002

[17] [17] Q. F. Tan, Y. B. Yan, G. F. Jin, “Statistic analysis of influence of phase distortion on diffractive optical element for beam smoothing,” Optics Express 12, pp. 3270-3278, 2004

[18] [18] M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1999 7th