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MCLEAN, VA— HOTEL BUSINESS® has learned that Hilton Worldwide has placed Steven Goldman, president of global development and real estate, on administrative leave.
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I loved how much diversity there was in terms of superhero writers vs non-hero writers.
I was, however, heartbroken that Adam Hines didn't make rank. Another year!
Hines came close. I believe he was #29. Brandon Easton had it the roughest, as he was #26 (Geoffrey Thorne was #27 and Robert Morales #28).
Really great list but so depressing we lost McDuffie and Washington too soon. The latter was particularly under appreciated (anyone who made Extreme Justice readable after those awful early issues deserves an Eisner award).
Also getting more writers to check out so thanks.
Say here, this GENIUS looks more interesting than its short and boring ad in Previews made it sound? Will have to dig into reviews! (Diamond has it available as MAR150534.)
Nice to see the STATIC excerpt use some mirror transitions, ala WATCHMEN. Few creators bother to develop their visual language beyond the panel.
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AYA's scans are unfortunately so blurry there, but the book has crisp art! It's basically a great rom-com, and refreshingly not involving war or famine or other news clichés while being set in Africa. (Well, except for one arc about the gay Michael Jackson clone who goes to Paris and creates a commotion as a hairdresser. Don't ask!)
Kyle Baker once released a page announcing THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW 2, and I'm still unsure whether he joked or never got to it! He also did KING DAVID, because he found it the biblical story with the most sex and violence, heh.
(Isn't it funny how many of these notices end with premature death? But not funny ha-ha like Kyle Baker.)
Plenty to ponder, thanks!
Wait, just one more thing… I'd like to point at a four more major books from overlooked single-work cartoonists!
One that's in print but also free online, an ill-titled allegory of MLK and MX:
* DUNCAN THE WONDER DOG (2010+) by Adam Hines
cf. http://goodokbad.com/index.php/reviews/duncan_the_wonder_dog_review
and http://www.geneva-street.com/duncanthewonderdog/
Two more B&W, drama and social scifi:
* THE ZABÎME SISTERS (2010/1996) by Aristophane [1967–2004]
cf. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/10/the-zabime-sisters-review/
* THE CHANGERS (2003) by Ezra Claytan Daniels
cf. http://www.grovel.org.uk/reviews/change01/change01.htm
and http://www.grovel.org.uk/reviews/change02/change02.htm
And one FC, social fantasy:
* BAYOU (2009+) by Jeremy Love
cf. http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/reviews/bayou-by-jeremy-love-patrick-morgan/
and http://www.lovelaughterinsanity.com/2015/02/bayou-v1-2-by-jeremy-love.html
Maybe for another poll!
Great list! I'd have put Herriman higher and Hudlin lower, but of course everybody has their faves.
AYA's scans are unfortunately so blurry there, but the book has crisp art! It's basically a great rom-com, and refreshingly not involving war or famine or other news clichés while being set in Africa. (Well, except for one arc about the gay Michael Jackson clone who goes to Paris and creates a commotion as a hairdresser. Don't ask!)
Just for you, I put in new scans from Drawn and Quarterly's online excerpt.
Certainly cannot argue with the top three.
The last major convention I went to I made it a point to track down Dwayne McDuffie and Kyle Baker and tell them how much I enjoyed their work over the years. I'm glad I did, as McDuffie passed away I think less than a year later. His contribution to the industry – in spite of editorial's best efforts to stymie him – cannot be overstated.
And while Baker's graphic novels are a master class in cartooning, his Plastic Man run remains one of my favorite superhero comics. Just sheer fun. And I still say Priest's Black Panther run is one of the best things to come out of Marvel Knights.
I remembered someone who I should have put on my list: Ian Jones-Quartey. RPG World, greatest webcomic of all time.
Reginald Hudlin was also one of the producers of the Oscar telecast last Sunday night.
And have you ever done a Legend or something on the whole Owsley/Priest name change? Seems like there's a lot of urban legends about that one.
Oh, thanks Brian! I was sad to imagine some readers might think AYA amateurish and skip it…
(Another thing is, Abouet may not write much more comics, not unlike Spiegelman or Satrapi, thus losing the exposure from having new work out regularly. One more reason, I think, to nurture any chance for AYA OF YOP CITY to get a little attention!)
One of Priest's last work for Marvel was a fill-in during Jurgens' Thor run, issue #59. One of the best single issue stories i have ever read. just fantastic. And i thought his short CA and Falcon was awesome too.
I Really wish Baker would do monthly work, somewhere.
Baker's drawing, but not writing, the Image 5 issue mini coming out soon called Circuit Breaker. Not sure if he's been writing anything for a bit, though.
One of my treasured comic possessions is a signed copy of Static: Rebirth of the Cool that I won from Dwayne from some contest or another… or maybe it was because of a fan letter. Either way, it means a lot to me because he was such a powerful writer and I miss his work.
So many great writers on this list bringing back so many great memories. I never saw that McDuffie FF scene before, but I loved it! I don't know why Sue doesnt use that threat on every enemy they meet.
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5 more of my picks make it – so all 10 of my list made it
so almost, but not quite, every black comic writer I have read has made it
Christopher Priest made my number 2 spot due to his work on Falcon, Conan, Black Panther and other series
Love McGruder. Too bad the Boondocks cartoon fizzled, but then we got Black Jesus!
I like Reggie Hudlin as well. He was a little corny at times, but I think he's the most Black Panther I've ever read!
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Aug 23, 16:13
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AimCore order visibility extends to the end of September
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See also: USC Is a Top 5 Party School.
Except tomorrow, when the school will ban tailgating for the first time in anyone's memory. You see, the home game against Arizona also represents a historic first: It's on a weeknight and not on a holiday, during a bowl game, or otherwise on a day when students are off. So ...
... the campus will be packed with students who also need parking, and there will be fewer places to party.
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So explained USC Athletics spokesman Tim Tessalone, who told us it was the first Thursday home match that wasn't on Thanksgiving or a bowl game. In fact, the last Thursday bout he could recall was 1925's Christmas Festival.
With a new television deal for Pac-12 conference games, "There's going to be occasion for weekday games," he said.
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This is new, uncharted territory for us. It's really a logistics issue with school in session. The lots are full, students are on campus. You really can't overload the campus. There would be nowhere for fans to park.
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It had a pool.
The lobby was cluttered. The common areas and parking lot had tars and was dirty. Our bathroom was dirty and had hair all over. The carpet in the room was so dirty, we couldn't let our daughter down to crawl.
Very close to major shopping areas.Nice parking space and looks clean and fresh on outside
The children working at reception during the day.
Looked old inside, needs update
Willingness to accommodate to another room, because whirlpool room did not have shower. Also, front desk personnel was awesome helping with questions. Breakfast was fantastic and everyone was friendly.
Small pillows on bed and all were super soft.
Was a nice place to lay our heads. This was just a stop on a road trip.
we didn't spend much awake time so could not comment
Great price and great employees. It's a well maintained older single level hotel but it's clean and comfortable. We will stay again.
The price was good since I booked through Kayak
When I arrived, my bathroom was not supplied thoroughly. There was no soap, shampoo or conditioner. I went to the front deal to ask for those supplies and they did not have any conditioner (I have long hair). The next morning (Friday) after I went to the bathroom, the toilet clogged. I informed the front desk of this as I left out at 9:00 am. I returned at 2:00 pm to find that it was still clogged and that housekeeping had not cleaned my room yet. I called the front desk and they sent housekeeping up a little while later. They "plunged" the toilet with a toilet brush, spraying dirty toilet water all over the bathroom (I wanted to throw up). I asked what time to expect my room to be cleaned and was told that there was no certain time and she quoted how many rooms they have (mind you, they were not even close to capacity, the parking lot had very few cars in it). I ended up leaving on Sat instead of Sun to go home. Housekeeping never did clean my room during my stay.
The bed was comfortable.
Dirty washcloths in bathroom, chewed on pen cap, remote power button non functioning, room rate diff
Hotel staff was very helpful and courteous. The room was very clean. Breakfast was a nice touch.
Was super comfortable
There was a lot of noise on second floor late at night- banging doors etc. was woke up more than once from loud noises
Excellent clean room and bathroom. Bed was wonderful.
Check-in took a little longer than expected due to new trainee. Not docking the hotel for this. The trainer and trainee were both very polite. That's just part of business.
Hotel looked very nice. Problem started when we arrived to be charged $15 for an additional person that we did not have the option of selecting when we booked. Just asked for number of rooms not guest #. TV kept turning off, staff tried to fix, we gave up
The bathroom toilet ran constantly, smoke alarm chirped all night. Staff said they could have moved us, these should be checked regularly, not replaced when they go off. we wanted to rest, not get up and move rooms in the middle of the night.
Clean, quiet and good location
Everyone was very friendly.
They shower head was broken. It still worked, it just didn't work well.
Staff was very friendly and helpful.
Had several problems with the cardkey not working for room number 234.
ease with check in
bathroom very dirty in corners and bathtub not very clean.
Clean, comfortable, & nice staff.
The price
The shower needed cleaning and the staff was lazy
Staff was very friendly.
It's close to our daughter's home.
It's getting old & run down. Pool was milky, not clear. Used to be fair, but we won't stay there again.
Hotel Staff was very nice and accommodated us as best they could.
Floors creeked, toilet did not flush half the time, TV is old/ out of date, rooms were smaller than expected.
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The evolution of the difference frequency generation between a planar pump wave and a focused signal wave has been numerically investigated in this paper. We show that, at the difference frequency wave, various beam patterns such as ring and moon-like, are resulted due to the nonuniform distribution of phase velocity in the focused signal wave. The subluminal and superluminal regions can be identified by the intersection of two generated beam profiles that correspond to a pair of phase-mismatches with equal value but opposite signs.
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1. Introduction
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) and difference frequency generation (DFG) are typical quadratic nonlinear processes that involve three-wave interactions. Conversion efficiency is the primary concern, which requires phase matching (Δk=0) if monochromatic plane waves are assumed. For focused Gaussian beams, however, quadratic nonlinear processes generally require quite different phase matching (PM) conditions [1–4]. For example, maximized SHG occurs at an optimal phase mismatch (Δkopt>0) along the beam axis that compromises the PM conditions among on-axis SHG and off-axis frequency mixing with diverging (or converging) portions of the beam [2]. In this paper we will pay attention to a different aspect of quadratic nonlinear processes with Gaussian beams, where the generated beam patterns resulted from large phase mismatch (Δk≠0) are the major concerns, regardless of the conversion efficiencies. Quadratic nonlinear processes are thought to be effective means for generating various beam patterns. For this purpose, noncollinear PM configurations were commonlly adopted. The ring-shaped SHG [5], conical second-harmonic beam [6], line-shaped pattern [7], hollow difference-frequency (DF) beam [8], etc., have been observed. These investigations are important in the applications such as manipulating and guiding cold atoms [9].
Equivalent to the noncollinear PM configurations, phase-velocity distribution due to beam focusing may also result in various beam patterns in a quadratic nonlinear process. The phase velocity in a focused beam, e.g., Gaussian beam, is nonuniformly distributed, which is pronouced if the beam waist is comparable to the wavelength [10–11]. In such a case, the PM condition varies transversely, which leads to different conversion efficiencies across the beam hence a patterned output [12–18]. The generated beam pattern contains the information of the phase-velocity distribution of the focused beam and may be changed by varying the nominal phase-mismatch ΔkL. Thus it may provide us a means to retrieval the phase-velocity distribution of a focused beam based on the pattern analyses, which would be useful in the applications where phase velocity plays a key role, e.g., the electron acceleration [19–21].
In particular, here we study the evolution of the beam pattern in the difference-frequency (DF) mixing between a planar pump wave and a focused signal wave. As expected, the generated beam patterns are very sensitive to the phase-velocity distribution at a large phase mismatch. Various patterns of the DF beam, e.g., ring-like and moon-like, may be obtained during the nonlinear process along the crystal. The DF beam profiles with different PM conditions are also studied, which shows that the subluminal and superluminal regions can be identified by the intersection of the two DF beam profiles that correspond to a pair of phase mismatches with the same value but opposite signs.
2. Preliminaries
2.1. Phase-velocity distribution of a focused Gaussian beam
Previous investigations have shown that the phase-velocity is nonuniformly distributed across nonuniform beams [10–11], which is more pronounced for small-sized or focused beams. For a Gaussian beam, by following Ref [11] and from some straightforward calculations, we write the phase-velocity in the z direction:
where ω and k denote the angular-frequency and the wave-number, respectively. In addition, φ(z) = tan-1 (z/zR), R(z) = z[1 + (zR /z)2], and zR is the Rayleigh length.
As shown in Fig. 1, the phase-velocity vpz of a Gaussian beam is nonuniformly distributed in both transverse and longitudinal directions. In the longitudinal region around the beam waist (|z|< zR), the phase-velocity decreases rapidly with the radial position. Subluminal phase-velocity occurs approximately in the region z |< zR with r > w 0, where w 0 is the radius of the beam waist. In the application of electron acceleration, when relativistic electrons are injected into this subluminal region, they can be trapped in the acceleration phase for a sufficiently long time and receive considerable account of energy from the strong laser field. This is the so called capture and acceleration scenario (CAS) [20]. CAS crucially relies on the existence of a subluminal region. However, the subluminal region is difficult to be identified by using traditional interferometric methods and has not been experimentally demonstrated since the phase-velocity is nonuniformly distributed and differs only slightly from the speed of light c.
Fig. 1.
2.2. Theoretical model of DFG between a planar pump wave and a focused signal wave
Within the slowly varying amplitude approximation and neglecting the temporal variations, the equations that govern the evolutions of the interacting waves in a quadratic medium are
where Ap, As and Ag denote the complex amplitudes of the pump, signal and DF waves, respectively, and σp, σs and σg are the nonlinear coupling coefficients. The wave-vector mismatch is defined by Δk = kp - (ks + kg). Typically, previous studies on DFG process were conducted in the situations where both the pump and signal were either planar waves or focused Gausian waves. In order to make the process sensitive to the phase-velocity distribution, we suggest that using different types of the input beams might be a proper choice. As a demostration, in this paper we study the type-II DFG process between a planar pump wave and a focused Gaussian signal wave. In the simulations, the nonlinear length LNL =(σ2 g Ap(0)As(0))-1/2 is adopted as an overall quantity to define the laser and crystal parameters. While we adopt the parameters related to β-barium borate (BBO) crystal and a typical femtosecond Ti: sapphire laser (wavelengths λs = λg =2λp = 800 nm) in the calculations, the approach is general for other laser and/or crystal parameters by using the nonlinear length LNL. In addition, the crystal is assumed to be thin, thus both the effects of spatial walk-off and temporal group-velocity mismatch (GVM) are neglected in Eq. (2) to (4).
In principle, the nonuniformly distributed phase-velocity may lead to different phase-matching conditions across the beam. Besides the nominal phase-mismatch Δk (corresponding to the case if all the interacting waves are planar), an additional phase-mismatch δk will contribute. This additional phase-mismatch is also nonuniformly distributed and will vary the conversion efficiency transversely which results in a patterned DF beam. In order to reveal the influence of the phase-velocity distribution on the DF beam pattern, we assume that the gain experienced by the signal is small (i.e., the nonlinear length LNL is assumed to be much large than the crystal length L). In such a case, the signal evolution can be approximated by its linear propagation and the approximation of pump nondepletion can also be adopted.
3. Numerical results
3.1. Nonlinear evolution of the DF beam with a Gaussian signal beam
Figure 2 presents the evolution of the DF beam patterns inside the crystal with the parameters given in Tab. 1,
where w0s is the beam waist of the signal in vacuum, zRc is the Rayleigh length of the signal in the crystal. In Fig. 2(a), the phase-mismatch is taken as ΔkL = 8 . As expected, the additional phase-mismatch δk plays an important role in generating the beam patterns. At the beginning, the DF beam has a bell-like pattern. With its nonlinear propagation in the crystal, a dip appears in the beam center. Then the central dip gradually spread outwards to form a ringlike pattern. And then a small bell-like pattern emerges at the center and the central dip turns into a dark ring and moves to the beam periphery. Finally, the DF beam returns to a bell-like form again but with a lower intensity. In Fig. 2(b) where the phase-mismatch is taken as ΔkL = -8 , the evolution of the DF beam is opposite to that in Fig. 2(a): it has a bell-like pattern at the beginning, then comes a dark ring at the beam periphery, and then the dark ring moves to the beam center and turns into a central dip, at last the central dip disappears and the beam becomes a bell-like form again.
Fig. 2.
The properties shown in Fig. 2 can be understood in terms of the nonuniform distribution of the phase-velocity on the signal beam. The nonuniformly distributed phase-velocity, as shown in Fig. 1, leads to a phase-velocity difference between the focused beam and a planar wave, and the magnitude of the difference varies with the transverse coordinate r . The nonuniform distribution of the phase-velocity difference will cause the phase-mismatch to vary with transverse coordinate in the DFG process. As shown in Fig. 2, in the region | ΔkL |< 2π, the pattern of the DF beam is similar to that of the signal beam, then the additional phase mismatch resulted by the nonuniform distribution of the phase velocity is:
just as the phase velocity shown in Fig. 1, the additional phase mismatch δk varies with the radial position r especially in the region |z|< zR, where it decreases rapidly with r . In the DFG process, the conversion efficiency is influenced by the total phase mismatch Dk, which can be written as
As a result, there should be a set of different beam patterns during the nonlinear evolution of the DF beam, because the conversion efficiency is influenced by the transversly varied δk .
Because of the variation of δk with the transverse coordinate r , the evolution of the DF beam generated from a planar pump wave and a focused Gaussian signal wave can be divided into three steps. Firstly, the transverse distribution of the DF beam near the entrance is a Gaussian one, just as that of the signal beam. In the region | Δkl |< 2π , with the increase of the interaction length, the diffraction of the DF beam is similar to the signal beam, therefore it keeps a bell-like form that is similar to a Gaussian one.
Secondly, in the position around | Δkl |= 2π, the distribution of the DF beam is very sensitive to δk since its intensity is proportional to sinc2 (Dkl /2). It is no other than the sensitivity causes the evolution of the dark ring in Fig. 2. In Fig. 2(a) (Fig. 2(b)), since Δk > 0 (Δk < 0), the total phase mismatch | Dkl | at the beam center (periphery) reaches 2π first. As a result, a dip (dark ring) emerges at the beam center (periphery). With the increase of l, the dark ring moves to the beam periphery (center) because the transverse position corresponding to | Dk | l = 2π moves to the beam periphery (center).
Last, in the region | Δkl |> 2π, the newly generated DF beam is not so sensitive to δk , and the pattern formed around the region | Δkl |~2π is too weak to influence its intensity distribution, therefore the DF beam comes back to a bell-like form.
3.2. Evolution of the DF beams with other types of signal beams
In fact, the previous theoretical investigation shows that, besides the Gaussian beam, other types of focused beam are also with nonuniform distribution of phase velocity [10]. Thus we may expect that there should be structure evolution in the DFG from other types of signal waves pumped by a planar wave.
In Fig. 3(a), we illustrate the evolution of the DFG between a focused elliptical Gaussian signal wave (EGSW) and a planar pump wave. In the numerical simulations, the ellipticity is taken as ρ = 1.2 (the ellipticity is defined as ρ = w 0y/w 0x, where w 0x (w 0y) is the beam waist in the x (y) direction). As expected, the DF beam first keeps an elliptical bell-like form. In the position around Δkl = 2π, an elliptical dip appears in the beam center; then it comes into a dark elliptical ring and moves toward the beam periphery. At last, the beam comes back to an elliptical bell-like form again.
The evolution of the DFG between a TEM10 Hermite-Gaussian signal beam (HGSB) and a planar pump wave is shown in Fig. 3(b). At the beginning, the DF beam has a pattern similar to TEM10 Hermite Gaussian beam (HGB). With the increase of l , the two side-lobes evolve to the follow patterns: the gibbous moon-like patterns, the half moon-like patterns, and the old moon-like patterns. When the side-lobes evolve to the old moon-like patterns, two small gibbous moon-like patterns appear in the center. Then with the broadening of the interior gibbous moon-like patterns, the exterior old moon-like patterns become narrower and narrower. At last, the exterior old moon-like patterns disappear and the interior gibbous moonlike patterns become a pattern similar to TEM10 mode HGB signal beam again. This is caused by the evolution of the dark ring from the beam center to the periphery, which is induced by the phase-velocity of the HGB which is axially symmetric and decreases with r .
Fig. 3.
3.3. DF beams generated from differently located crystals
In Fig. 4, we study the DFG generated in two different situations. In situation I (II), the entrance plane of the crystal is z = -zRc (z = zRc), and the exit plane is z = zRc(z = -3zRc) We find that at the exist plane, the two DF beams have the same amplitude and spatial distribution, but their phases are conjugated (i.e., these two beams are phase-conjugated waves), as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4(a). We have compared the DF beams generated for different values of crystal length and phase-mismatch Δk, the results show that the two DF beams are also phase-conjugated waves under the conditions of symmetric incident planes and equal crystal lengths.
Fig. 4.
Figure 4(b) explains the results shown in Fig. 4(a): In situation I, when the signal beam propagates over a short distance h from the plane z = -z 0 , according to Eq. (4), the locally generated DF beam at the position z = -z 0+ h is the phase-conjugated wave of the signal beam:
In obtaining Eq. (7), the diffraction is neglected because the propagating distance is very short. The DF beam given by Eq. (7) is equivalent to the signal beam at the plane z = z 0. When the DF wave generated at z = -z 0 propagates to the exist plane z = - z 0 + L , it is equivalent to the signal beam at the plane z = z 0 + L in situation II. Thus, when it propagates to the exist plane z = -z 0 + L , the DF wave generated at z = -z 0 in situation I is the phase-conjugated wave of that generates at z = z 0 + L in situation II, because in situation II the locally generated DF wave is also the phase-conjugated wave of the signal beam. In a similar way, when they propagate to the exist plane, all the DF waves generated at other planes in situation I should have their corresponding phase-conjugated waves in the locally generated DF waves in situation II. Consequently, the overall DF beam at the exit plane in situation I, which is the coherent combination of the DF waves generated at different positions in the crystal, is the phase-conjugated wave of that in situation II.
3.4. Division between the subluminal and the superluminal region
Figure 1 and Eq. (5) indicate that, in the region |z|< zR of a focused Gaussian beam, the phase-velocity-induced δk decreases with the transverse coordinate r and is equal to zero at a certain radial position. This property results in an interesting characteristic shown in Fig. 5 where the DFG beam profiles for different values of phase-mismatch Δk are plotted. The beam profiles for + Δkn and - Δkn (where Δkn presents a certain phase mismatch value) intersect each other, and the transverse positions of intersections are identical for all pairs of the phase-mismatch +Δkn and -Δkn. This property reflects the fact that, at this transverse position, the intensity of the DF wave in the case of perfect PM (Δk = 0) is the largest compared to those in the cases of phase-mismatch, and the decrease of the DF intensity due to phase-mismatch Δk = +Δkn is equal to that in the case of Δk = -Δkn .
Fig. 5.
According to Fig. 4(b), when the entrance plane is at the beam waist (z =0), the locally generated DF wave in every plane inside the crystal is a Gaussian beam, and the beam radii of DF waves vary from those of the signal beam between z =0 and z =L planes. Therefore during the DFG process both the signal and the locally generated DF wave are Gaussian (although the overall DF beam at the exit plane deviates from the standard Gaussian beam). And as a result, as shown in Fig. 5, the transverse position where the intersections locate at is in a good agreement with the radial position (r =1.075w 0) where the phase velocity of the Gaussian beam at z = L/2 is equal to the standard light velocity c . This property will be valuable in identifying the subluminal region of the Gaussian beam, which is important in many applications such as electron acceleration.
It is important to discuss the obtained results in the application to electron acceleration where the laser field is usually an ultrashort one. With femtosecond pulses, the nonlinear coupled-wave equations should generally take the effect of GVM into consideration [22]. In fact, as shown in previous work the effect of GVM would influence the conversion efficiency as well as the optimal focusing ratio in frequency mixing using "thick" nonlinear crystal [22]. In our simulations, however, "thin" crystals with typical length 0.1~0.2 mm are used, which is much shorter than the GVM length for pulses ~100 fs. Thus the effect of GVM is very weak, and the results obtained in this paper may be adequately applied to the case with femtosecond pulses.
4. Conclusion
In summary, the DFG between a planar pump wave and a focused signal beam has been investigated. The numerical results have shown that the DF waves present interesting beam patterns related to the nonuniform phase-velocity distribution of the focused signal beam. The resulted beam patterns can conversely reflect the relationship among the phase velocities of the interacting waves and might be useful in detecting the slightly nonuniform distribution of the phase-velocity across focused beams, which is important in some applications such as the CAS.
This work was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant Nos. 10335030, 60538010 and 10576009), and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (grant Nos. 05JC14005 and 05SG02).
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