Tailoring the filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses with periodic lattices Academic Article

abstract

• We show numerically that by using periodic lattices the filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses, otherwise a result of competing nonlinear effects, can be well controlled with respect to its properties. The diffraction induced by the lattice provides a regularizing mechanism to the nonlinear self-action effects involved in filamentation. We demonstrate a new propagation regime of intense lattice solitons bridging the field of spatial solitons with that of femtosecond laser filamentation. The effective filamentation control is expected to have an important impact on numerous applications. 2010 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Panagiotopoulos, P., Efremidis, N. K., Papazoglou, D. G., Couairon, A., & Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

• 24

complete list of authors

• Panagiotopoulos, P||Efremidis, NK||Papazoglou, DG||Couairon, A||Tzortzakis, S

publication date

• December 2010

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.061803

start page

• 061803

volume

• 82

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.82.061803