Abstract
The dependence of the formation process of a light bullet on the relation between diffraction and dispersion lengths of the femtosecond mid-IR wave packet during its propagation in transparent dielectrics is studied. It is found that the ratio of the diffraction length of the wave packet to its dispersion length is the similarity parameter for the light bullet formation under conditions of anomalous dispersion of the group velocity. The value of the filamentation threshold power taken relative to the critical power of stationary self-focusing is also defined by the introduced similarity parameter and increases with it.
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This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 18-12-00422.
The experiments were performed using a unique scientific facility “Multipurpose Femtosecond Laser Diagnostic Spectrometric System,” Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Russian Text © E.D. Zaloznaya, A.E. Dormidonov, V.O. Kompanets, 2019, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2019, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 20–26.
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Zaloznaya, E.D., Dormidonov, A.E. & Kompanets, V.O. Effect of Scale Characteristics of a Femtosecond Mid-IR Wave Packet on the Threshold Power of Filamentation. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 46, 122–125 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335619040043
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335619040043