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Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media

Arnaud Couairon, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2007 - 
- Vol. 441, Iss: 2, pp 47-189
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In this paper, the main aspects of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in various transparent media such as air (gases), transparent solids and liquids are introduced and discussed.
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This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2007-03-01. It has received 2282 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Filamentation & Femtosecond.

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Laser-induced condensation by ultrashort laser pulses at 248 nm

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare femtosecond, sub-picosecond and nanosecond duration between each other, as well as with respect to near-infrared (NIR) (800 nm) ultrashort laser pulses.
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Self-focusing dynamics of ultraintense accelerating Airy waveforms in water

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report experiments and numerical simulations on the self-focusing and filamentation of ultraintense femtosecond Airy waveforms in water, which results in the generation of distinct features in the angularly resolved spectra of forward-propagating supercontinuum emission.
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Development of nonperturbative nonlinear optics models including effects of high order nonlinearities and of free electron plasma: Maxwell-Schrödinger equations coupled with evolution equations for polarization effects, and the SFA-like nonlinear optics model

TL;DR: In this article, a non-conventional nonlinear optics model for short electromagnetic fields propagating in a gas is proposed, which allows for inclusion of high order nonlinearities as well as free electron plasma effects.
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Improving supersonic flights with femtosecond laser filamentation

TL;DR: It is shown experimentally that an embarked terawatt femtosecond laser can substantially reduce the drag experienced by a supersonic object and that this technique offers possibilities for steering.
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New mechanism for THz oscillation of the nonlinear refractive index in air: particle-like solutions

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized nonlinear envelope equation governing the propagation of optical pulses, with superbroad spectrum, in air is described, and the corresponding modified nonlinear term in the equation oscillates with terahertz frequency.
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