Abstract
We show that spatiotemporal light bullets generated by self-focusing and filamentation of 100 fs, 1.8 mu m pulses in a dielectric medium with anomalous group velocity dispersion (sapphire) are extremely robust to external perturbations. We present the experimental results supported by the numerical simulations that demonstrate complete spatiotemporal self-reconstruction of the light bullet after hitting an obstacle, which blocks its intense core carrying the self-compressed pulse, in nonlinear as well as in linear (free-space) propagation regimes. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 30613-30622 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 25 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2014 |
Keywords
- FEMTOSECOND PULSES
- FILAMENTS
- PROPAGATION
- LOSSES
- MEDIA
- BEAMS
- WAVE
- AIR