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It is demonstrated that for femtosecond supercontinuum generation in optical waveguides with nonresonant electronic nonlinearity the squared root-mean-square pulse duration varies near-parabolically with distance, irrespectively of spectrum ultra-broadening scenarios. The derived formulas for parabolic coefficients are applied to find the areas of spectral and energetic parameters of few-cycle pulses propagating in hollow capillaries filled with noble gases, where temporal pulse broadening, compression, or quasi-stationary propagation occur. Each regime is illustrated by the typical changes in the pulse electrical field and spectrum.
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Shpolyanskiy, Y., Belov, D., Bakhtin, M. et al. Analytic study of continuum spectrum pulse dynamics in optical waveguides. Appl Phys B 77, 349–355 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1248-x
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