Light Filaments Without Self Guiding
Optics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
An examination of the propagation of intense 200 fs pulses in water reveals light filaments not sustained by the balance between Kerr-induced self-focusing and plasma-induced defocusing. Their appearance is interpreted as the consequence of a spontaneous reshaping of the wave packet form a gaussian into a conical wave, driven by the requirement of maximum localization, minimum losses and stationarity in the presence of non-linear absorption.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0311072,
title = {Light Filaments Without Self Guiding},
author = {Audrius Dubietis and Eugenijus Gaizauskas and Gintaras Tamosauskas and Paolo Di Trapani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0311072},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. on July 7th, 2003