Exploring the limits to energy scaling and distant-target delivery of high-intensity midinfrared pulses

Paris Panagiotopoulos, Miroslav Kolesik, Jerome V. Moloney

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Abstract

We numerically investigate the scaling behavior of midinfrared filaments at extremely high input energies. It is shown that, given sufficient power, kilometer-scale, low-loss atmospheric filamentation is attainable by prechirping the pulse. Fully resolved four-dimensional (xyzt) simulations show that, while in a spatially imperfect beam the modulation instability can lead to multiple hot-spot formation, the individual filaments are still stabilized by the recently proposed mechanism that relies on the temporal walk-off of short-wavelength radiation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number033852
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume94
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 28 2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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