Ultrashort laser pulse filamentation from spontaneous X Wave formation in air
Author(s) -
Daniele Faccio,
A. Averchi,
Antonio Lotti,
P. Di Trapani,
A. Couairon,
D. G. Papazoglou,
Stelios Tzortzakis
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.16.001565
Subject(s) - filamentation , optics , protein filament , ultrashort pulse , pulse (music) , physics , laser , femtosecond pulse shaping , materials science , detector , composite material
The description of ultrashort laser pulse filamentation in condensed media as a spontaneous formation of X waves is shown to apply also to filaments generated in air. Within this framework, a simple explanation is brought for several features of the filament such as the subdiffractive propagation and the energy flux from the weakly localized tails of the X-waves to the intense core.
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