Tailoring femtosecond laser pulse filamentation using plasma photonic lattices

Journal Article · Mon Jul 08 04:00:00 EDT 2013 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4813310· OSTI ID:22122789

Suntsov, Sergiy; Abdollahpour, Daryoush; Panagiotopoulos, Paris ^[1]; Papazoglou, Dimitrios G.; Tzortzakis, Stelios ^[1]; Couairon, Arnaud ^[2]

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1. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, P.O. Box 1527, 71110 Heraklion (Greece)
2. Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau (France)

We demonstrate experimentally that by using transient plasma photonic lattices, the attributes of intense femtosecond laser filaments, such as peak intensity and length, can be dynamically controlled. The extended plasma lattice structure is generated using two co-propagating non-diffracting intense Bessel beams in water. The use of such transient lattice structures to control the competition between linear and nonlinear effects involved in filamentation opens the way for extensive control of the filamentation process.

• OSTI ID: 22122789
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 103; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
BEAMS
FILAMENTS
LASER RADIATION
LIGHT TRANSMISSION
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
PLASMA PRODUCTION
PULSES
TRANSIENTS
VELOCITY
WATER