2019
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.99.033824
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Loss of polarization of elliptically polarized collapsing beams

Abstract: We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that collapsing elliptically-polarized laser beams experience a nonlinear ellipse rotation that is highly sensitive to small fluctuations in the input power. For arbitrarily small fluctuations in the input power and after a sufficiently large propagation distance, the polarization angle becomes uniformly distributed in [0, 2π] from shot-toshot. We term this novel phenomenon loss of polarization. We perform experiments in fused-silica glass, nitrogen gas and … Show more

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“…where 0 < ǫ ≪ 1, t ≥ 0, and x ∈ R, describes the propagation of elliptically polarized, ultrashort pulses in optical fibers [2], of elliptically polarized continuous-wave (CW) beams in a bulk medium [37,46], Stokes and anti-Stokes radiation in Raman amplifiers [40], and rogue water-waves formation at the interaction of crossing seas [1]. We consider (7.1) with an elliptically-polarized Gaussian input pulse with a random amplitude [37,46] (7.2)…”
Section: And Both Approximations Use N = 64 Sample Points (C) L 1 Err...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…where 0 < ǫ ≪ 1, t ≥ 0, and x ∈ R, describes the propagation of elliptically polarized, ultrashort pulses in optical fibers [2], of elliptically polarized continuous-wave (CW) beams in a bulk medium [37,46], Stokes and anti-Stokes radiation in Raman amplifiers [40], and rogue water-waves formation at the interaction of crossing seas [1]. We consider (7.1) with an elliptically-polarized Gaussian input pulse with a random amplitude [37,46] (7.2)…”
Section: And Both Approximations Use N = 64 Sample Points (C) L 1 Err...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, the general settings presented above have spurred numerous papers in a field of computational science known as Uncertainty-Quantification (UQ), see e.g., [14,22,43,53,54,55]. Perhaps surprisingly, the full approximation of µ (rather than its moments alone) in these particular settings received little theoretical attention in the literature, even though it is of practical importance in diverse fields such as ocean waves [1], computational fluid dynamics [8], hydrology [9], aeronautics [17], biochemistry [25], and nonlinear optics [30,36]. Even though f − g q does not control p µ − p ν p in general (see e.g., Fig.…”
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confidence: 99%