Self-pinching of pulsed laser beams during filamentary propagation
- authored by
- Carsten Bree, Ayhan Demircan, Stefan Skupin, Luc Berge, Günter Steinmeyer
- Abstract
Competing nonlinear optical effects that act on femtosecond laser pulses propagating in a self-generated light filament may give rise to a pronounced radial beam deformation, similar to the z-pinch contraction of pulsed high-current discharges. This self-generated spatial beam contraction is accompanied by a pulse break-up that can be beneficially exploited for on-axis temporal compression of the pulse. The pinching mechanism therefore explains the recently observed self-compression and the complicated spatio-temporal shapes typical for filament propagation experiments.
- External Organisation(s)
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Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS) Leibniz-Institute in Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V.
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy im Forschungsbund Berlin e.V. (MBI)
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Optics express
- Volume
- 17
- Pages
- 16429-16435
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 1094-4087
- Publication date
- 14.09.2009
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.016429 (Access:
Open)
