Observation of the complex propagation of a femtosecond laser pulse in a dispersive transparent bulk material

Abstract

Pulse shapes in a dispersive transparent material modulated by group-velocity dispersion, self-phase modulation, and self-focusing induced by a femtosecond laser light were observed directly with femtosecond time-resolved optical polarigraphy probing the induced instantaneous birefringence. The first observation of the state of femtosecond laser pulses about the interaction region inside the transparent bulk material indicated that the pulse propagation was accomplished with a multiple conelike structure that was hypothesized from a numerical simulation with an extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

© 2003 Optical Society of America

Multiframe observation of an intense femtosecond optical pulse propagating in air

M. Fujimoto, S. Aoshima, and Y. Tsuchiya
Opt. Lett. 27(5) 309-311 (2002)

High-frame-rate observation of single femtosecond laser pulse propagation in fused silica using an echelon and optical polarigraphy technique

Xiaofang Wang, Lihe Yan, Jinhai Si, Shigeki Matsuo, Huailiang Xu, and Xun Hou
Appl. Opt. 53(36) 8395-8399 (2014)

Numerical aperture dependence of damage and supercontinuum generation from femtosecond laser pulses in bulk fused silica

Jonathan B. Ashcom, Rafael R. Gattass, Chris B. Schaffer, and Eric Mazur
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(11) 2317-2322 (2006)

Femtosecond snapshot imaging of propagating light itself

Makoto Hosoda, Shin-ichiro Aoshima, Masatoshi Fujimoto, and Yutaka Tsuchiya
Appl. Opt. 41(12) 2308-2317 (2002)

Micromachining bulk glass by use of femtosecond laser pulses with nanojoule energy

Chris B. Schaffer, André Brodeur, José F. García, and Eric Mazur
Opt. Lett. 26(2) 93-95 (2001)