Self-reconstructing spatiotemporal light bullets

I. Grazuleviciute, G. Tamosauskas, V. Jukna, A. Couairon, D. Faccio, A. Dubietis*

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)30613-30622
Number of pages10
JournalOptics Express
Volume22
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2014

Keywords

  • FEMTOSECOND PULSES
  • FILAMENTS
  • PROPAGATION
  • LOSSES
  • MEDIA
  • BEAMS
  • WAVE
  • AIR

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