The formation and self-recovery of a single-cycle light bullet after total internal reflection of a femtosecond pulse in a transparent insulator in the region of anomalous dispersion of the group velocity have been studied experimentally for the first time.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-12-00422, https://rscf.ru/project/18-12-00422).
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Chekalin, S.V., Kompanets, V.O. Experimental Study of the Self-Compression of a Wave Packet upon Total Internal Reflection in a Transparent Insulator. Jetp Lett. 113, 677–680 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364021110059
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