Robust near-infrared light bullet in 800-nm femtosecond light filaments in air

摘要

Systematic numerical study of near-infrared radiation formed during filamentation in air revealed the formation of robust light bullet first registered in the experiment (Chen et al. in Appl Phys B 91:219, 2008). The near-infrared light bullet propagates along the filament axis with the divergence < 1 mrad and the quasi-constant duration of similar to 30 fs. The central wavelength of the bullet gradually increases from 860 to 900 nm during the propagation. The results of our numerical simulation are in agreement with the experiments (Chen et al. in Appl Phys B 91:219, 2008; Uryupina et al. in Appl Phys B 110:123, 2013).