Plasma waveguide array induced by filament interaction

Xuan Yang, Jian Wu, Yan Peng, Yuqi Tong, Peifen Lu, Lian G.En Ding, Zhizhan Xu, Heping Zeng

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Abstract

We demonstrate that interference-assisted coalescence of two noncollinearly overlapped filaments creates a wavelength-scale periodic plasma density modulation to guide the input pulses equivalently as a photonic crystal plasma waveguide. The periodic self-channeling is evidenced by the direct observation of the filament coalescence, which reveals wavelength-scale spatial widths and periodicity dependent on the crossing angles and intensity ratios between the incident filaments.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3806-3808
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume34
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2009

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