title: Self-channeling of subgigawatt femtosecond laser pulses in a ground-state waveguide induced in the hollow core of a photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: Femtosecond laser pulses with powers below the blowup threshold for self-focused beams are shown to experience spatial self-action in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers filled with argon, nitrogen, and atmospheric air. Regardless of the transverse field distribution at the input of the fiber, the output beam pattern in this regime tends to a circularly symmetric profile, corresponding to a ground-state waveguide induced by laser pulses inside a hollow fiber.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, International Laser Center, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Konorov
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zheltikov
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Tarasevitch
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: von der Linde