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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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Influence of ellipticity on harmonic generation
TL;DR: Results of experiments testing the influence of elliptical polarization on the production of high-order harmonics are presented and some of these data are compared with the predictions of lowest-order perturbation theory.
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Organizing multiple femtosecond filaments in air
TL;DR: It is shown that it is possible to organize regular filamentation patterns in air by imposing either strong field gradients or phase distortions in the input-beam profile of an intense femtosecond laser pulse, and for the first time that a control of the transport of high intensities over long distances may be achieved by forcing this well ordered propagation regime.
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Breakup and fusion of self-guided femtosecond light pulses in air.
TL;DR: Experiments show the breakup and the merging of filaments formed by the modulational instability of femtosecond optical pulses in air, which occurs in an optically Kerr regime and plays an important role in the guiding process.
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White-light continuum generation and filamentation during the propagation of ultra-short laser pulses in air
TL;DR: In this article, numerical results on femtosecond pulses in air including multiphoton ionization, group-velocity dispersion, space-time focusing, self-steepening, Raman response, and higher-order χ (5) defocusing are presented.
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Space - time focusing: breakdown of the slowly varying envelope approximation in the self-focusing of femtosecond pulses.
TL;DR: By properly including the linear space–time focusing properties of short pulses, it is found that the trailing half of the self-focusing pulse is greatly enhanced and culminates in the formation of a trailing shock edge.