Self-guided propagation of ultrashort ir laser pulses in fused silica

S. Tzortzakis; L. Sudrie; M. Franco; B. Prade; A. Mysyrowicz; A. Couairon; L. Bergé

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.213902

Self-guided propagation of ultrashort ir laser pulses in fused silica

S. Tzortzakis
, L. Sudrie
, M. Franco
, B. Prade
, A. Mysyrowicz
, A. Couairon
, L. Bergé

Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique
Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton

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Abstract

We report self-guided propagation of ultrashort IR laser pulses in fused silica over several Rayleigh lengths. Self-guiding is accompanied by pulse splitting and time compression. Numerical simulations involving pulse self-focusing, temporal dispersion, and multiphoton ionization are found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. They show that a quasidynamic equilibrium between multiphoton ionization and self-focusing drives the filamentation process, while temporal dispersion plays a negligible role.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213902-1-213902-4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	87
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.213902
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2001

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