Ultrashort Light Pulses in Transparent Solids: Propagation Peculiarities and Practical Applications
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https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.6.457Keywords:
femtosecond laser pulses, Kerr effect, femtosecond filaments, crystal silicon, self-focusing, self-phase modulationAbstract
The peculiarities of the femtosecond filamentation in Kerr media has been studied using a set of time-resoling experimental techniques. These include the temporal self-compression of a laser pulse in the filamentation mode, repulsive and attractive interactions of filaments, and influence of the birefringence on the filamentation. The propagation of femtosecond laser pulses at the 1550-nm wavelength in c-Si is studied for the first time using methods of time-resolved transmission microscopy. The nonlinear widening of the pulse spectrum due to the Kerr- and plasma-caused self-phase modulation is recorded.
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