Back to Search
Start Over
Ionization assisted self-guiding of femtosecond laser pulses
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas. 25:053110
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2018.
-
Abstract
- We propose a new mechanism for the self-guiding of ultra-intense sub-picosecond laser pulses in gaseous media. It can be realized via optical field ionization by a laser pulse as it propagates inside an expanding cylindrical shock wave launched into ambient gas by a decayed plasma filament. In experiments, the filament was created in a hydrogen jet by a low energy femtosecond laser pre-pulse line focused with axicon lens. We demonstrated ionization-assisted guiding in structures with diameter as small as 14 μm and up to 3.5 mm long. The intensity reached 5 × 1017 W/cm2 in a single mode propagating for more than 100 Rayleigh lengths.We propose a new mechanism for the self-guiding of ultra-intense sub-picosecond laser pulses in gaseous media. It can be realized via optical field ionization by a laser pulse as it propagates inside an expanding cylindrical shock wave launched into ambient gas by a decayed plasma filament. In experiments, the filament was created in a hydrogen jet by a low energy femtosecond laser pre-pulse line focused with axicon lens. We demonstrated ionization-assisted guiding in structures with diameter as small as 14 μm and up to 3.5 mm long. The intensity reached 5 × 1017 W/cm2 in a single mode propagating for more than 100 Rayleigh lengths.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........25437e0668d31be8258eac6b7105116b