Recent developments in nonlinear optics have led to the discovery of a new class of ultrashort pulse, the ‘optical similariton’. Optical similaritons arise when the interaction of nonlinearity, ...

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Ultrafast photonics is the study of light and its interaction with matter on short timescales, typically less than a picosecond. This includes investigating processes that occur in atoms and molecules ...