Axial emission and spectral broadening in self-focusing of femtosecond Bessel beams

Opt Express. 2007 Apr 2;15(7):4168-75. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.004168.

Abstract

We report on the experimental observations of on-axis spectral broadening arising from self-focusing of the axicon-generated femtosecond Bessel beam in water. The observed spectral broadening is interpreted by a nonlinearly phase-matched four-wave mixing process involving the intense conical pump, the axial signal and a conical idler wave.