We have shown, for the first time to our knowledge, that the self-compression of high intensity femtosecond optical pulses, preceding by self-focussing, is a general phenomenon that can be observed in different optical media, providing proper control of the experimental conditions. This has been experimentally confirmed in a number of atomic (Ar, Kr) and molecular (CH/sub 4/) gaseous media and in bulk solid material (fused silica). The full space-time trapping of the femtosecond pulses results in the generation (for the first time to our knowledge) of a full-dimensional spatiotemporal soliton (light bullet.


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    Title :

    Self-compression of femtosecond laser pulses and full-dimensional spatiotemporal optical soliton formation


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    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


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    161597 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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