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In situ observation of photoinduced refractive-index changes in filaments formed in glasses by femtosecond laser pulses

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Abstract

We investigated the relationship between the formation of filaments and local refractive-index changes induced by femtosecond laser pulses in silica glass. In situ observation revealed that the location of a filament coincided with that of the refractive-index change. Observation also showed that the region of refractive-index change was elongated toward the upstream direction of the laser pulses with increasing exposure time. The region of refractive-index change was several hundred micrometers long, and its diameter was smaller than 2 μm. The refractive-index change was confirmed by two of three different methods to be as large as 0.8×10-2.

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