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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2001

Breakup and Fusion of Self-Guided Femtosecond Light Pulses in Air

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We report experiments showing the breakup and the merging of filaments formed by the modulational instability of femtosecond optical pulses in air. For input powers as high as 25 times the self-focusing threshold, the beams are shown to split into two spots, which coalesce into a self-guided beam. This effect occurs in an optically Kerr regime and plays an important role in the guiding process. Numerical simulations and theoretical estimates both support the comparison with the experimental data.

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hal-00463706 , version 1 (14-03-2010)

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Stellios Tzortzakis, Luc Bergé, Arnaud Couairon, Michel A. Franco, Bernard Prade, et al.. Breakup and Fusion of Self-Guided Femtosecond Light Pulses in Air. Physical Review Letters, 2001, 86 (24), pp.5470-5473. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5470⟩. ⟨hal-00463706⟩
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