Enhancement of peak intensity in a filament core with spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses

  • Bin Zeng*
  • , Wei Chu
  • , Hui Gao
  • , Weiwei Liu
  • , Guihua Li
  • , Haisu Zhang
  • , Jinping Yao
  • , Jielei Ni
  • , See Leang Chin
  • , Ya Cheng
  • , Zhizhan Xu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate that the peak intensity in the filament core, which is inherently limited by the intensity clamping effect during femtosecond laser filamentation, can be significantly enhanced using spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses. In addition, the filament length obtained by spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser pulses is ∼25 times shorter than that obtained by a conventional focusing scheme, resulting in improved high spatial resolution.

Original languageEnglish
Article number063819
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume84
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Dec 2011
Externally publishedYes

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