Self-focusing distance of very high power laser pulses

Gadi Fibich; Shmuel Eisenmann; Boaz Ilan; Yossi Erlich; Moshe Fraenke; Zohar Henis; Alexander L. Gaeta; Arie Zigler

doi:10.1364/OPEX.13.005897

Self-focusing distance of very high power laser pulses

Gadi Fibich^*, Shmuel Eisenmann, Boaz Ilan, Yossi Erlich, Moshe Fraenke, Zohar Henis, Alexander L. Gaeta, Arie Zigler

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Racah Institute of Physics

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We show numerically for continuous-wave beams and experimentally for femtosecond pulses propagating in air, that the collapse distance of intense laser beams in a bulk Kerr medium scales as 1/P^1/2 for input powers P that are moderately above the critical power for self focusing, but that at higher powers the collapse distance scales as 1/P.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5897-5903
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	13
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.005897
State	Published - 25 Jul 2005

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