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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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Long distance filamentation of 400 nm femtosecond laser pulses in air

TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of light filaments formed by λ=400 nm blue femtosecond laser pulses are experimentally investigated and the results indicate that the up conversion of laser is a possible way to enhance the utilization of laser energy for the generation of long filaments.
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Dynamics of CO(2) laser pulse filamentation in air influenced by spectrally selective molecular absorption.

TL;DR: The theoretical aspects of self-focusing and filamentation of high-power pulsed CO(2) laser radiation with carrier wavelength 10.6 μm in air are considered and the spectrally selective molecular absorption of realistic atmospheric air is included in the theoretical model.
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Collapse dynamics of a vector vortex optical field with inhomogeneous states of polarization

TL;DR: In this paper, the collapse dynamics of a vector field with hybrid states of polarization (SoP) in a Kerr medium is demonstrated, based on a pair of coupled 2D nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
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Multioctave supercontinua and subcycle lightwave electronics [Invited]

TL;DR: The term “supercontinuum generation” has been seamlessly extended, thanks to its all-embracing character, to include very-high-order and nonperturbative nonlinear optical processes and now applies to ultrabroadband field waveform generation in the ultraviolet and x-ray ranges, as well as high-harmonic attosecond and zeptosecond supercontinua.
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Simulations of 10 μm filaments in a realistically modeled atmosphere

TL;DR: In this article, the formation and propagation dynamics of 10 μm filaments in the atmosphere were numerically studied and it was shown that the carrier self-steepening regularization mechanism predicted for 4 μm wavelengths still holds.
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