Femtosecond multi-filamentation control by mixture of gases: towards synthesised nonlinearity.
We have investigated femtosecond multi-filamentation process in a mixture of gases controlling the concentration of atoms versus molecules in the gas cell. The experimental results show that this control could provide a new freedom degree to deterministic spatial distribution control of the multiple filaments. Our simulation indicates surprisingly that only difference of the gases nonlinearity (referred to as "synthesised nonlinearity") is sufficient to be responsible for this control. This study opens the way to provide few-cycle pulses spatial distributed source for spatially encoded measurements and experiments.
Alonso
Benjamín
B
Universidad de Salamanca, Area de Optica. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain.
Zaïr
Amelle
A
San Román
Julio
J
Varela
Oscar
O
Roso
Luis
L