Abstract
We predict that long wavelength self-trapped multi-terawatt pulses can be sustained over multiple kilometers in the atmosphere. Unlike filaments, these pulses exhibit low loss propagation and retain most of their launch power at range. A novel mechanism involving an aggregation of weakly linear and nonlinear cumulative optical responses is shown to be responsible and is dominated by an ultrafast dynamical lensing resulting from a field intensity driven many-body Coulomb mediated free electron polarization associated with spatially separated species in the gas. An initial few picosecond pulse can compress down to 140 fs over multiple kilometers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3722-3725 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Optics letters |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2017 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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2859006.mp4
Schuh, K. (Creator), Panagiotopoulos, P. (Creator), Kolesik, M. (Creator), Koch, S. W. (Creator) & Moloney, J. V. (Creator), figshare, 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5353972, https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/media/2859006_mp4/5353972
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Multi-terawatt 10 um pulse atmospheric delivery over multiple Rayleigh ranges
Schuh, K. (Creator), Panagiotopoulos, P. (Creator), Kolesik, M. (Creator), Koch, S. W. (Creator) & Moloney, J. V. (Creator), figshare, 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3865624, https://figshare.com/collections/Multi-terawatt_10_um_pulse_atmospheric_delivery_over_multiple_Rayleigh_ranges/3865624
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2859007.mp4
Schuh, K. (Creator), Panagiotopoulos, P. (Creator), Kolesik, M. (Creator), Koch, S. W. (Creator) & Moloney, J. V. (Creator), Optica Publishing Group, 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5353975.v1, https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/media/2859007_mp4/5353975/1
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