2012/07/27 by M. Petrarca, Y. Petit, S. Henin +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Filamentation #Kerr effect #Laser #Laser Material Processing Techniques #Laser beams #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Nonlinear optics #Ptychography #Refractive index #Self-phase modulation #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.37.004347
8 pages, 4 figures, 8 panels ; submitted to Opt. Lett
arxiv created 2012/07/27 · openalex publication_date 2012/10/12 · arxiv updated 2015/06/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We test numerical filamentation models against experimental data about the peak intensity and electron density in laser filaments. We show that the consideration of the higher-order Kerr effect improves the quantitative agreement without the need of adjustable parameters.