Models for supercontinuum generation beyond the slowly-varying-envelope approximation

Abstract

We show numerically that both the modified Korteweg-de Vries and the sine-Gordon models are conducive to the generation of supercontinua with spectral bandwidths of several octaves, when an intense short pulse is launched as the initial condition. These models beyond the slowly-varying-envelope approximation could play an important role in modeling supercontinuum generation in gas-filled hollow waveguides.