Ultrashort laser pulse filamentation from spontaneous X-Wave formation in air. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The description of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in condensed media as a spontaneous formation of X waves is shown to apply also to filaments generated in air. Within this framework, a simple explanation is brought for several features of the filament such as the subdiffractive propagation and the energy flux from the weakly localized tails of the X-waves to the intense core.

published proceedings

  • Opt Express

author list (cited authors)

  • Faccio, D., Averchi, A., Lotti, A., Di Trapani, P., Couairon, A., Papazoglou, D., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

  • 65

complete list of authors

  • Faccio, Daniele||Averchi, Alessandro||Lotti, Antonio||Di Trapani, Paolo||Couairon, Arnaud||Papazoglou, Dimitris||Tzortzakis, Stelios

publication date

  • February 2008