Self-focusing: Past and Present

Part I. Self-focusing in the Past: Review of Self-Focusing and Self-Trapped Filaments of Light
- Self-Focusing: Theory (Comments)
- Optical Self-Focusing: Stationary Beams and Femtosecond Pulses
- Self-Focusing and Self-Trapping of Optical Beams
- Self-Focusing and Self-Channeling of Laser Radiation: History and Perspectives
- Multi-Focus Structure and Moving Nonlinear Foci - Adequate Model of Self-Focusing of Laser Beams
- Small-Scale Self-focusing
- Wave Collapse in Nonlinear Optics
- Super-Gaussian Beams for Suppression of Diffraction and Self-Focusing in High-Power Nd:Glass Laser Amplifiers
- Self-Action Effects, Pattern Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Atomic Vapors
- Diffraction and Interference in Supercontinuum Generation
- Reprints of Several Important Papers from the Past
Part II. Self-focusing in the Present: Self-Trapping of Optical Beams: Spatial Solitons
- Self-Focusing of Femtosecond Pulses in Air and Condensed Matter: Simulations and Experiments
- Self-Organized Propagation of Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air
- The Physics of Intense Femtosecond Laser Filamentation
- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Self-focusing
- Some Comments on the History of Self-focusing Theory
- Nonlinear X Waves: Theory and Experiment
- On the Role of Conical Waves in Self-Focusing and Filamentation of fs Pulses
- Self-Focusing and Self-Defocusing of Femtosecond Pulses with Cascaded Quadratic Nonlinearities
- Effective Parameters of High-Power Laser Femtosecond Radiation at Self- focusing in Gas and Aerosol Media
- Diffraction-Induced High-Order Modes of the (2+1)-D Nonparaxial Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
- Self-Focusing in Photorefractive Crystals
- Measurement of Nonlinear Susceptibilities Using Self-Action Effects (Including Z-scan)

Robert W. Boyd

Prof. Boyd was born in Buffalo, NY. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. degree in physics in 1977 from the University of California at Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Professor Charles H. Townes and involves the use of nonlinear optical techniques in infrared detection for astronomy. Professor Boyd joined the faculty of the Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester in 1977 and since 1987 has held the position of Professor of Optics. Since July 2001 he has also held the position of the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics, and since July 2002 has also held the position of Professor of Physics. His research interests include studies of "slow" and "fast" light propagation, quantum imaging techniques, nonlinear optical interactions, studies of the nonlinear optical properties of materials, the development of photonic devices including photonic biosensors, and studies of the quantum statistical properties of nonlinear optical interactions. Professor Boyd has written two books, including widely used text "Nonlinear optics", co-edited two anthologies, published over 230 research papers, and been awarded five patents. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America and is a past chair of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society.



Svetlana G. Lukishova

Dr. Lukishova was born in Moscow, Russia. She received her M.S. degree in Physics (with high honors) and Ph.D. degree (1977) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (FizTech). Her M.S. and Ph.D. research was performed at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Her Ph.D. thesis was supervised by P.P. Pashinin and Nobel Prize winner A.M. Prokhorov and involved spatial beam-profile and temporal pulse-shape control in laser-fusion systems. After holding research positions at the I.V. Kurchatov