Self-guided propagation of ultrashort IR laser pulses in fused silica. Academic Article

abstract

• We report self-guided propagation of ultrashort IR laser pulses in fused silica over several Rayleigh lengths. Self-guiding is accompanied by pulse splitting and time compression. Numerical simulations involving pulse self-focusing, temporal dispersion, and multiphoton ionization are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. They show that a quasidynamic equilibrium between multiphoton ionization and self-focusing drives the filamentation process, while temporal dispersion plays a negligible role.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Tzortzakis, S., Sudrie, L., Franco, M., Prade, B., Mysyrowicz, A., Couairon, A., & Berg, L.

citation count

• 222

complete list of authors

• Tzortzakis, S||Sudrie, L||Franco, M||Prade, B||Mysyrowicz, A||Couairon, A||Bergé, L

publication date

• November 2001

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4008 Electrical Engineering
• 51 Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 11736340

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.213902

start page

• 213902

volume

• 87

issue

• 21

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.87.213902