Tailoring femtosecond laser pulse filamentation using plasma photonic lattices

  • Sergiy Suntsov
  • , Daryoush Abdollahpour
  • , Dimitrios G. Papazoglou
  • , Paris Panagiotopoulos
  • , Arnaud Couairon
  • , Stelios Tzortzakis

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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that by using transient plasma photonic lattices, the attributes of intense femtosecond laser filaments, such as peak intensity and length, can be dynamically controlled. The extended plasma lattice structure is generated using two co-propagating non-diffracting intense Bessel beams in water. The use of such transient lattice structures to control the competition between linear and nonlinear effects involved in filamentation opens the way for extensive control of the filamentation process.

Original languageEnglish
Article number021106
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume103
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2013

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