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Femtosecond filamentation in transparent media
Arnaud Couairon,André Mysyrowicz +1 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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Laser Synthesis and Processing of Colloids: Fundamentals and Applications
TL;DR: Unscreened surface charge of LSPC-synthesized colloids is the key to achieving colloidal stability and high affinity to biomolecules as well as support materials, thereby enabling the fabrication of bioconjugates and heterogeneous catalysts.
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Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly ionized, optically transparent media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the landmarks of the 10-odd-year progress in this field, focusing on the theoretical modeling of the propagation equations, whose physical ingredients are discussed from numerical simulations.
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Curved Plasma Channel Generation Using Ultraintense Airy Beams
Pavel Polynkin,Miroslav Kolesik,Jerome V. Moloney,Georgios A. Siviloglou,Demetrios N. Christodoulides +4 more
TL;DR: The experimental observation of curved plasma channels generated in air using femtosecond Airy beams, where the tightly confined main intensity feature of the axially nonsymmetric laser beam propagates along a bent trajectory, leaving a curved plasma channel behind.
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Optical waveguides in crystalline dielectric materials produced by femtosecond-laser micromachining
TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art in the fabrication, characterization and applications of femtosecond-laser micromachined waveguiding structures in optical crystals and ceramics is presented in this article.
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Bessel and annular beams for materials processing
TL;DR: In this paper, proper-ties, generation methods and emerging applications for non-Gaussian beam shapes are discussed, including Bessel, an-nular, and vortex beams.
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Ultrafast electron dynamics in femtosecond optical breakdown of dielectrics
TL;DR: In this paper, the optical breakdown threshold (OBT) in dielectrics with different band gaps was measured for single and double 25-fs 800-nm transform-limited laser pulses.
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Unidirectional Optical Pulse Propagation Equation
TL;DR: A unidirectional optical pulse propagation equation that provides a seamless transition between various nonlinear envelope equations in the literature and the full vector Maxwell's equations is illustrated in the context of supercontinuum generation in air.
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Teramobile: A mobile femtosecond-terawatt laser and detection system
H. Wille,M. Rodriguez,M. Rodriguez,Jérôme Kasparian,Jérôme Kasparian,Didier Mondelain,Jin Yu,André Mysyrowicz,R. Sauerbrey,Jean-Pierre Wolf,Ludger Wöste +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Teramobile system, a femtosecond multi-terawatt laser and detection system based on a CPA laser system embedded in a standard freight container, is described.
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Direct measurement of the critical power of femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulse in air
Weiwei Liu,See Leang Chin +1 more
TL;DR: A simple experiment to directly determine the critical power for self-focusing in air by measuring the focal shift of the focused femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses.
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Review of multiphoton absorption in crystalline solids
TL;DR: In this article, an extensive review of theoretical and experimental investigations conducted over the last two decades since the advent of the laser and relating to the simultaneous absorption of one or more photons by the valence electrons of a crystalline solid is given.