Temporal self-restoration of compressed optical filaments

Details Temporal self-restoration of compressed optical filaments Temporal self-restoration of compressed optical filaments

2008-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/0809.0385v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 213901 (2008)

Physics

Optics

4 Pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.213901

We numerically investigate the propagation of a self-compressed optical filament through a gas-glass-gas interface. Few-cycle light pulses survive a sudden and short order-of-magnitude increase of nonlinearity and dispersion, even when all conservative estimates predict temporal spreading or spatial breakup. Spatio-temporal distortions are shown to self-heal upon further propagation when the pulse refocuses in the second gas. This self-healing mechanism has important implications for pulse compression techniques handled by filamentation and explains the robustness of such sources.

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