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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; References; Part I Physical Picture of Supercontinuum Generation; 2 Governing Physical Effects; 2.1 Self-focusing of Laser Beams; 2.2 Self-phase Modulation of Laser Pulses; 2.3 Nonlinear Absorption and Ionization; 2.4 Plasma Effects; 2.4.1 Transition of Electrons from the Valence to the Conduction Band; 2.4.2 Refractive Index Change; 2.4.3 Plasma-Induced Phase Modulation; 2.4.4 The Drude-Lorentz Model; 2.5 Intensity Clamping; 2.6 Chromatic Dispersion; 2.7 Self-steepening and Space-Time Focusing
2.8 Four-Wave Mixing and Phase MatchingReferences; 3 Femtosecond Filamentation in Solid-State Media; 3.1 Universal Features of Femtosecond Filamentation; 3.1.1 Conical Emission; 3.1.2 Plasma Channel Formation; 3.1.3 Filament Robustness and Energy Reservoir; 3.1.4 Conical Waves; 3.2 Numerical Model; 3.3 Supercontinuum Generation Under Normal GVD; 3.4 Supercontinuum Generation in the Region of Anomalous GVD; 3.5 Supercontinuum Generation Under Zero GVD; 3.6 Conical Emission; References; Part II Overview of the Experimental Results; 4 General Practical Considerations; 4.1 Materials
4.2 External Focusing4.3 Stability Issues; 4.4 Effect of Filament Refocusing; 4.5 Multiple Filamentation; References; 5 Experimental Results; 5.1 Water as a Prototypical Nonlinear Medium; 5.2 Glasses; 5.3 Alkali Metal Fluorides; 5.4 Laser Hosts; 5.5 Crystals with Second-Order Nonlinearity; 5.6 Semiconductors; 5.7 Other Nonlinear Media; References; 6 New Developments; 6.1 Power and Energy Scaling; 6.2 Extracavity Pulse Compression; 6.2.1 Pulse Compression Exploiting SPM in Normally Dispersive Media; 6.2.2 Soliton Compression Due to Second-Order Cascading
6.2.3 Self-compression Through Filamentation6.2.4 Soliton Compression in Isotropic Nonlinear Media with Anomalous GVD; 6.2.5 Other Compression Mechanisms; 6.3 Supercontinuum Generation with Picosecond Laser Pulses; 6.4 Control of Supercontinuum Generation; 6.5 Supercontinuum Generation with Non-Gaussian Beams; 6.6 Other Developments; References
2.8 Four-Wave Mixing and Phase MatchingReferences; 3 Femtosecond Filamentation in Solid-State Media; 3.1 Universal Features of Femtosecond Filamentation; 3.1.1 Conical Emission; 3.1.2 Plasma Channel Formation; 3.1.3 Filament Robustness and Energy Reservoir; 3.1.4 Conical Waves; 3.2 Numerical Model; 3.3 Supercontinuum Generation Under Normal GVD; 3.4 Supercontinuum Generation in the Region of Anomalous GVD; 3.5 Supercontinuum Generation Under Zero GVD; 3.6 Conical Emission; References; Part II Overview of the Experimental Results; 4 General Practical Considerations; 4.1 Materials
4.2 External Focusing4.3 Stability Issues; 4.4 Effect of Filament Refocusing; 4.5 Multiple Filamentation; References; 5 Experimental Results; 5.1 Water as a Prototypical Nonlinear Medium; 5.2 Glasses; 5.3 Alkali Metal Fluorides; 5.4 Laser Hosts; 5.5 Crystals with Second-Order Nonlinearity; 5.6 Semiconductors; 5.7 Other Nonlinear Media; References; 6 New Developments; 6.1 Power and Energy Scaling; 6.2 Extracavity Pulse Compression; 6.2.1 Pulse Compression Exploiting SPM in Normally Dispersive Media; 6.2.2 Soliton Compression Due to Second-Order Cascading
6.2.3 Self-compression Through Filamentation6.2.4 Soliton Compression in Isotropic Nonlinear Media with Anomalous GVD; 6.2.5 Other Compression Mechanisms; 6.3 Supercontinuum Generation with Picosecond Laser Pulses; 6.4 Control of Supercontinuum Generation; 6.5 Supercontinuum Generation with Non-Gaussian Beams; 6.6 Other Developments; References