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

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.

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||BergĂ©, L

publication date

  • November 2001