Self-focusing Distance of Very High Power Laser Pulses
Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 15, pp. 5897-5903 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.005897
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Abstract
We show numerically for continuous-wave beams and experimentally for femtosecond pulses propagating in air, that the collapse distance of intense laser beams in a bulk Kerr medium scales as 1/P1/2 for input powers P that are moderately above the critical power for self focusing, but that at higher powers the collapse distance scales as 1/P.
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OCIS Codes
(010.1300) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric propagation
(190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(190.7110) Nonlinear optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics
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History
Original Manuscript: June 27, 2005
Revised Manuscript: July 20, 2005
Published: July 25, 2005
Citation
Gadi Fibich, Shmuel Eisenmann, Boaz Ilan, Yossi Erlich, Moshe Fraenkel, Zohar Henis, Alexander Gaeta, and Arie Zigler, "Self-focusing Distance of Very High Power Laser Pulses," Opt. Express 13, 5897-5903 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-15-5897
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