Observation of spontaneous self-channelling of light in air below the collapse threshold

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2004-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409106v1

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Optics

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.053905

We report the observation of the self-guided propagation of 120 fs, 0.56 mJ infrared radiation in air for distances greater than one meter. In contrast to the known case of filamentation, in the present experiment the laser power is lower than the collapse threshold. Therefore the counter balance between Kerr self focussing and ionization induced defocussing as the stabilizing mechanism is ruled out. Instead, we find evidences of a process in which the transversal beam distribution reshapes into a form similar to a Townes soliton. We include numerical support for this conclusion.

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