Self-reconstruction of light filaments
- 15 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 29 (24) , 2893-2895
Abstract
By observing how a light filament generated in water reconstructs itself after hitting a beam stopper in the presence and in the absence of a nonlinear medium, we describe the occurrence of an important linear contribution to reconstruction that is associated with the conical nature of the wave. A possible scenario by which conical wave components are generated inside the medium by the distributed stopper or reflector created by nonlinear losses or plasma is presented.Keywords
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