Title :
Self-channeling of 100-MW 30-fs Ti:sapphire-laser pulses in the fundamental air-guided mode of a hollow-core-photonic-crystal fiber
Author :
Kortonov, S.O. ; Zheltikov, A.M. ; Zhou, Ping ; Tarasevitch, A.P. ; von der Linde, D. ; Beloglazov, V.I. ; Skibina, N.B.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Moscow State Univ.
Abstract :
Spatial self-action of 100-MW 30-fs laser pulses in hollow-core photonic-crystal fibers filled with different gases is demonstrated, resulting in the formation of circularly symmetric Townes-like beam profiles and allowing channeling of high-intensity ultrashort laser pulses
Keywords :
laser beams; optical fibres; optical pulse generation; photonic crystals; self-phase modulation; 100 MW; 30 fs; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire-laser pulses; circularly symmetric Townes-like beam profiles; fundamental air-guided mode; hollow-core-photonic-crystal fiber; self-channeling; spatial self-action;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
