Curved plasma channels: Kerr lens and Airy prism
| Autor: | Jean-Pierre Wolf, Jérôme Kasparian |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
business.industry Perturbation (astronomy) Physics::Optics Plasma ddc:500.2 Self-phase modulation Laser Self-focusing and defocusing Beam trapping Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics law.invention Transverse plane Ultrashort laser Wavefronts and ray tracing Optics Filamentation law business Physics - Optics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications, Vol. 4, No 09039 (2009) |
| ISSN: | 1990-2573 |
| Popis: | We analytically calculate the transverse energy fluxes that would be respectively induced in high-power Airy beams by the Kerr self-focusing and the Airy profile itself if they were the only active process. In experimental condition representative of laser filamentation experiments of high-power ultrashort laser pulses in air and condensed media, the Kerr lens induces transverse energy fluxes much larger than the Airy "prism" at the main peak. As a consequence, the curved plasma channels in Airy beams are not only a plasma spark on a curved focus, but indeed self-guided filaments, and their curved trajectory appears as a perturbation due to the linear Airy propagation regime. Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures (6 panels) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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