Self-reconstructing spatiotemporal light bullets

Gražulevičiūtė, I., Tamošauskas, G., Jukna, V., Couairon, A., Faccio, D. and Dubietis, A. (2014) Self-reconstructing spatiotemporal light bullets. Optics Express, 22(25), pp. 30613-30622. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.030613) (PMID:25607009)

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Abstract

We show that spatiotemporal light bullets generated by self-focusing and filamentation of 100 fs, 1.8 μm pulses in a dielectric medium with anomalous group velocity dispersion (sapphire) are extremely robust to external perturbations. We present the experimental results supported by the numerical simulations that demonstrate complete spatiotemporal self-reconstruction of the light bullet after hitting an obstacle, which blocks its intense core carrying the self-compressed pulse, in nonlinear as well as in linear (free-space) propagation regimes.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Faccio, Professor Daniele
Authors: Gražulevičiūtė, I., Tamošauskas, G., Jukna, V., Couairon, A., Faccio, D., and Dubietis, A.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Optics Express
Publisher:Optical Society of America
ISSN:1094-4087
ISSN (Online):1094-4087

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