Kerr-induced spontaneous Bessel beam formation in the regime of strong two-photon absorption. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We study the effect of Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) nonlinear losses on Gaussian pulses, with power that exceeds the critical power for self-focusing, propagating in bulk kerr media. Experiments performed in fused silica and silicon highlight a spontaneous reshaping of the input pulse into a pulsed Bessel beam. A filament is formed in which sub-diffractive propagation is sustained by the Bessel-nature of the pulse.

published proceedings

  • Opt Express

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Faccio, D., Clerici, M., Averchi, A., Jedrkiewicz, O., Tzortzakis, S., Papazoglou, D. G., ... Di Trapani, P.

citation count

  • 20

complete list of authors

  • Faccio, D||Clerici, M||Averchi, A||Jedrkiewicz, O||Tzortzakis, S||Papazoglou, DG||Bragheri, F||Tartara, L||Trita, A||Henin, S||Cristiani, I||Couairon, A||Di Trapani, P

publication date

  • May 2008