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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123902 (2009) [4 pages]

Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Airy Beams in Water

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Pavel Polynkin*, Miroslav Kolesik, and Jerome Moloney
College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Received 2 March 2009; published 18 September 2009

We report experiments on the propagation of intense, femtosecond, self-bending Airy laser beams in water. The supercontinuum radiation generated along the curved beam path is angularly resolved in the far field. Spectral maps of this radiation reveal the changing character of the laser-pulse evolution on propagation.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.123902
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.123902
PACS:
42.65.Ky, 42.25.Bs, 42.65.Jx, 42.65.Re

*ppolynkin@optics.arizona.edu