Interaction of Femtosecond Light Filaments with Obscurants in Aerosols

Details Interaction of Femtosecond Light Filaments with Obscurants in Aerosols Interaction of Femtosecond Light Filaments with Obscurants in Aerosols

Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004phrvl..93b3901s&link_type=abstract

Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, Issue 2, id. 023901

Physics

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Optical Solitons, Nonlinear Guided Waves, Beam Trapping, Self-Focusing And Defocusing, Self-Phase Modulation, Propagation, Transmission, Attenuation, And Radiative Transfer

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The interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with opaque droplets in the atmosphere is examined numerically. Intense filaments resulting from the balance between self-focusing and ionization of air molecules are shown to be robust against obscurants sized up to 2/3 of the filament diameter. (3D+1)-dimensional numerical simulations confirm recent experimental data [

F. Courvoisier et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.APPLAB0003-6951 83, 213 (2003)10.1063/1.1592615

]. The filament is rapidly rebuilt with minimal loss of energy over a few cm after the interaction region. The replenishment of the pulse mainly proceeds from the nonlinear attractor responsible for the formation of a spatial soliton modeling the filament core.

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