Multi-terawatt 10 mu m pulse atmospheric delivery over multiple Rayleigh ranges

作者:Schuh Kolja; Panagiotopoulos Paris*; Kolesik Miroslav; Koch Stephan W; Moloney Jerome V
来源:Optics Letters, 2017, 42(19): 3722-3725.
DOI:10.1364/OL.42.003722

摘要

We predict that long wavelength self-trapped multiterawatt pulses can be sustained over multiple kilometers in the atmosphere. Unlike filaments, these pulses exhibit low loss propagation and retain most of their launch power at range. A novel mechanism involving an aggregation of weakly linear and nonlinear cumulative optical responses is shown to be responsible and is dominated by an ultrafast dynamical lensing resulting from a field intensity driven many-body Coulomb mediated free electron polarization associated with spatially separated species in the gas. An initial few picosecond pulse can compress down to 140 fs over multiple kilometers.

  • 出版日期2017-10-1