Formation of Annular Light Bullets in a Femtosecond Vortex Beam


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Abstract

The formation of annular light bullets during the filamentation of femtosecond optical vortices in a LiF crystal under conditions of anomalous group velocity dispersion is considered. Features of the spatiotemporal dynamics of pulses are described. Quantitative estimates of the parameters of light bullets are given. The mechanism of the formation of a light bullet in the first nonlinear focus is analyzed. Models of a stationary optical vortex and a slit beam are considered.

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E. V. Vasiliev

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: vasilev.evgeniy@physics.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840

V. P. Kandidov

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences; Faculty of Physics and International Laser Center, Moscow State University

Email: vasilev.evgeniy@physics.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840; Moscow, 119991

V. O. Kompanets

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vasilev.evgeniy@physics.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840

S. V. Chekalin

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vasilev.evgeniy@physics.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840

S. A. Shlenov

Faculty of Physics and International Laser Center, Moscow State University

Email: vasilev.evgeniy@physics.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991

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