Abstract

The "averaged Lagrangian method" is used along with the paraxial and aberration-free approximations to investigate how diffraction affects the propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in an isotropic insulator. It is shown that diffraction is capable of compensating the self-focusing phenomenon if the number of vibrations contained in a pulse exceeds a definite critical value. © 2004 Optical Society of America

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