氩气中的多条圆偏振飞秒光丝的控制与特性.pdfVIP

1650 OPTICS LETTERS / Vol. 32, No. 12 / June 15, 2007 Control and characterization of multiple circularly polarized femtosecond filaments in argon A. Trisorio and C. P. Hauri* Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7639, F-91761 Palaiseau, France * Corresponding author: hauri@ensta.fr Received March 6, 2007; accepted April 2, 2007; posted April 13, 2007 (Doc. ID 80332); published June 5, 2007 We provide what is believed to be the first experimental evidence of spatial control on multiple filamentation (MF) using circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses. The exceptional shot-to-shot reproducibility of the MF pattern allowed complete characterization of the two copropagating high-energy filaments, revealing for the first time temporal (self-) compression of circularly polarized filamenting pulses to a fifth of the initial 57 fs laser pulse duration without any sophisticated chirp control. Compared with LP MF, an enhancement in spatial stability and an increase in energy throughput are reported for circular input polarization. © 2007 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 320.7110, 190.5530. In recent years interest in femtosecond filamentation In this paper we provide to our knowledge the first in gaseous media has rapidly grown, since they pro- experimental evidence that stable MF can be induced vide coherent ultrabroadband radiation [ 1,2], which by a circularly polarized (CP) femtosecond laser with can be used for intense few-cycle laser pulse genera- a radial-sy