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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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Femtosecond continua produced in gases
Paul B. Corkum,Claude Rolland +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the nonlinearity responsible for self-focusing and self-phase modulation saturates at an intensity of approximately 10/sup 13/W/cm/sup 2/2 in xenon.
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Nucleation and random movement of filaments in the propagation of high-power laser radiation in a turbulent atmosphere
TL;DR: In this article, the nucleation and random movement of a nonlinear moving focus in a turbulent atmosphere during the propagation of a high-power sub-picosecond laser pulse was investigated for a medium with fluctuations of the refractive index.
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Breakdown threshold and localized electron density in water induced by ultrashort laser pulses
C. H. Fan,J. Sun,Jon P. Longtin +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a femtosecond breakdown model is combined with the classical rate equations to determine both time and position-dependent electron density during femto-cond optical breakdown in water.
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Ionization-induced frequency shifts in intense femtosecond laser pulses
TL;DR: In this paper, the frequency shifts caused by the ionization of atmospheric-density noble gases during interaction with intense femtosecond laser pulses are analyzed and compared with experimental data.
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Propagation dynamics of femtosecond laser pulses in a hollow fiber filled with argon: constant gas pressure versus differential gas pressure
TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of femtosecond laser pulses propagating in a hollow fiber filled with argon, through a full numerical solution of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation was investigated.