Superfilamentation in air
Optics
2014-08-26 v3 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The interaction between a large number of laser filaments brought together using weak external focusing leads to the emergence of few filamentary structures reminiscent of standard filaments, but carrying a higher intensity. The resulting plasma is measured to be one order of magnitude denser than for short-scale filaments. This new propagation regime is dubbed superfilamentation. Numerical simulations of a nonlinear envelope equation provide good agreement with experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.1162,
title = {Superfilamentation in air},
author = {Guillaume Point and Yohann Brelet and Aurélien Houard and Vytautas Jukna and Carles Milián and Jérôme Carbonnel and Yi Liu and Arnaud Couairon and André Mysyrowicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1162},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures