Author:
Shlenov S.A.,Kompanets V.O.,Dergachev A.A.,Kandidov V.P.,Chekalin S.V.,Soifer F.I.
Abstract
Abstract
The results of experimental and theoretical study of the self-action of femtosecond optical vortices in the region of anomalous group velocity dispersion in fused silica and fluorides are presented. Multiple filamentation of an axially asymmetric annular beam with a phase dislocation of topological charge m = 1 at a wavelength of 1800 nm in a LiF crystal is investigated. It is found that for the experimentally recorded intensity profile of a vortex beam with two maxima on the diameter, the critical self-focusing power is approximately two times larger than the critical power of a unimodal Gaussian beam. In pulses with supercritical power in the vicinity of the intensity maxima, two coupled filaments, separated by a phase dislocation, are formed on the annular profile of the optical vortex, which prevents energy exchange during their formation. The length of vortex-beam plasma channels in a single pulse is found to be about 300 μm at a diameter of about 2 μm, which is close to the characteristics of plasma channels in a Gaussian beam.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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