Modeling and simulation techniques in extreme nonlinear optics of gaseous and condensed media

M Kolesik, JV Moloney - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Computer simulation techniques for extreme nonlinear optics are reviewed with emphasis
on the high light-intensity regimes in which both bound and freed electronic states contribute …

The role of the Kramers–Henneberger atom in the higher-order Kerr effect

M Richter, S Patchkovskii, F Morales… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the connection between strong-field ionization, saturation of the Kerr response
and the formation of the Kramers–Henneberger (KH) atom and long-living excitations in …

Effect of two-beam coupling in strong-field optical pump-probe experiments

JK Wahlstrand, JH Odhner, ET McCole, YH Cheng… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
Nonlinear optics experiments measuring phase shifts induced in a weak probe pulse by a
strong pump pulse must account for coherent effects that only occur when the pump and …

Highly extended high density filaments in tight focusing geometry in water: from femtoseconds to microseconds

FV Potemkin, EI Mareev, AA Podshivalov… - New Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new regime of filamentation in water in tight focusing geometry, very similar to
the so-called superfilamentation seen in air. In this regime there is no observable conical …

High-field quantum calculation reveals time-dependent negative Kerr contribution

P Béjot, E Cormier, E Hertz, B Lavorel, J Kasparian… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
The exact quantum time-dependent optical response of hydrogen under strong-field near-
infrared excitation is investigated and compared to the perturbative model widely used for …

Effect of a plasma grating on pump–probe experiments near the ionization threshold in gases

JK Wahlstrand, HM Milchberg - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Calculations are performed of the phase shift caused by the spatial modulation in the
plasma density due to interference between a strong pump pulse and a weak probe pulse. It …

Intensity clam** during laser filamentation by TW level femtosecond laser in air and argon

S Xu, J Bernhardt, M Sharifi, W Liu, SL Chin - Laser Physics, 2012 - Springer
A systematic research on intensity clam** phenomenon was conducted both in air and
argon by using a TW level femtosecond laser. Though the laser peak power was increased …

[HTML][HTML] The extreme nonlinear optics of gases and femtosecond optical filamentation

HM Milchberg, YH Chen, YH Cheng, N Jhajj… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Under certain conditions, powerful ultrashort laser pulses can form greatly extended,
propagating filaments of concentrated high intensity in gases, leaving behind a very long …

Spatio-temporal evolution scenarios of femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in fused silica

EO Smetanina, AE Dormidonov, VP Kandidov - Laser physics, 2012 - Springer
We investigated the evolution of femtosecond laser pulses at different wavelengths
corresponding to normal, zero, and anomalous regimes of group velocity dispersion (GVD) …

Kramers-Kronig relations and high-order nonlinear susceptibilities

C Brée, A Demircan, G Steinmeyer - … Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
As previous theoretical results recently revealed, a Kramers-Kronig transform of multiphoton
absorption rates allows for a precise prediction on the dispersion of the nonlinear refractive …