Evolution of lasers in Kerr nonlinear materials is inextricably linked with unstable behavior.
Current research has investigated the growth of optical Kerr instability out of noise, which …

Kerr instability can be exploited to amplify visible, near-infrared, and midinfrared ultrashort
pulses. We use the results of Kerr instability amplification theory to inform our simulations …

Amplification of femtosecond laser pulses typically requires a lasing medium or a nonlinear
crystal. In either case, the chemical properties of the lasing medium or the momentum …

Kerr instability amplification can amplify over an octave of spectrum, a broad bandwdith
supporting few-cycle pulses. However, dispersion management in this regime is crucial to …

Kerr instability amplification can amplify over an octave of spectrum, a broad bandwidth
supporting few-cycle pulses. However, dispersion management in this regime is crucial, and …

Whereas the Kerr nonlinearity is well understood in the perturbative limit of nonlinear optics,
there is considerable discussion about its functional form and magnitude at extreme …

We report on the theoretical derivation and experimental demonstration of the influence of
chirp on the spatiotemporal modulation instability in a nonlinear Kerr medium. Based on a …

We study ultrashort laser-pulse propagation and filamentation dynamics in dispersive Kerr
media. We identify the regime for which the filamentation threshold (P th) is considerably …

Experiments show that the spatiotemporal spectral broadening of an intense pump pulse in
a Kerr medium in the presence of strong higher-order dispersion does not lead to symmetric …

A self-consistent analysis of pulse propagation inside a laser cavity containing, in addition to
an amplifying medium, some material displaying the optical Kerr effect, yields ultrashort …