Dressed optical filaments

    Authors

    M. S. Mills; M. Kolesik;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    FEMTOSECOND LASER-PULSES; LIGHT FILAMENTS; AIR; PROPAGATION; GENERATION; CONCATENATION; INTENSITY; RESERVOIR; REGIME; RANGE; Optics

    Abstract

    In this Letter we show that by appropriately providing an auxiliary "dress" beam one can extend the longevity of an optical filament by almost one order of magnitude. These optical dressed filaments can propagate substantially further by judiciously harnessing energy from their secondary beam reservoir. This possibility is theoretically investigated in air when the filament is dressed with a conically convergent annular Gaussian beam. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    38

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    25

    Last Page

    27

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000312708200009

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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