2014/01/31 by Nicolas Berti, N. Berti, Wahb Ettoumi +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Dissipation #Filamentation #Ionization #Laser #Laser Material Processing Techniques #Laser beams #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Self-phase modulation #Ultrafast laser spectroscopy #Ultrashort pulse #nlin.CD #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/oe.22.021061
published as Optics Express 22, 21051 (2014) · 12 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/08/22 · arxiv created 2014/09/03 · arxiv updated 2014/09/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate the reversibility of laser filamentation, a self-sustained, non-linear propagation regime including dissipation and time-retarded effects. We show that even losses related to ionization marginally affect the possibility of reverse propagating ultrashort pulses back to the initial conditions, although they make it prone to finite-distance blow-up susceptible to prevent backward propagation.