Virtual Feature Issue

Laser filamentation and applications: introduction

Shermineh Rostami Fairchild, Yi Liu, John Palastro, and Joe Peñano

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), LFA1-LFA2 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Control of terahertz pulse polarization by two crossing DC fields during femtosecond laser filamentation in air

Qiang Su, Qiang Xu, Nan Zhang, Yang Zhang, and Weiwei Liu

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G1-G5 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Supercontinuum generation by femtosecond flat-top laser pulses in fused silica

Mengning Xu, Lindi Zhan, Tingting Xi, and Zuoqiang Hao

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G6-G12 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimizing the third harmonic generated from air plasma filaments pumped by femtosecond laser pulses

Yi Liu, Chenhao Kou, Aurélien Houard, and André Mysyrowicz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G13-G18 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Energy, spectral, and angular properties of post-filamentation channels during propagation in air and condensed media

Yury E. Geints, Andrey A. Ionin, Daria V. Mokrousova, Georgy E. Rizaev, Leonid V. Seleznev, Elena S. Sunchugasheva, and Alexander A. Zemlyanov

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G19-G24 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Range of multiple filamentation of a terawatt-power large-aperture KrF laser beam in atmospheric air

Vladimir Zvorykin, Andrey Ionin, Daria Mokrousova, Leonid Seleznev, Igor’ Smetanin, Elena Sunchugasheva, Nikolai Ustinovskii, and Alexey Shutov

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G25-G32 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Filamentation of long-wave infrared pulses in the atmosphere [Invited]

Sergei Tochitsky, Eric Welch, Paris Panagiotopoulos, Misha Polyanskiy, Igor Pogorelsky, Miroslav Kolesik, Stephan W. Koch, Jerome V. Moloney, and Chan Joshi

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G40-G51 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Temporal stitching in burst-mode filamentation

Danielle Reyes, Haley Kerrigan, Jessica Peña, Nathan Bodnar, Robert Bernath, Martin Richardson, and Shermineh Rostami Fairchild

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G52-G56 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization ellipticity dependence of N2+ air lasing: the role of coupling between the ground state and a photo-excited intermediate state

Yuexin Wan, Bo Xu, Jinping Yao, Jinming Chen, Zhaoxiang Liu, Fangbo Zhang, Wei Chu, and Ya Cheng

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G57-G61 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-color pulse collapse events in dispersive media

Alexey Sukhinin, Alejandro Aceves, and Jean-Claude Diels

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G62-G67 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of self-focusing for few-cycle pulses

Sergei A. Kozlov, Arkadiy A. Drozdov, Saumya Choudhary, Mikhail A. Kniazev, and Robert W. Boyd

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(10), G68-G77 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Channeling the dielectric breakdown of air by a sequence of laser-generated plasma filaments [Invited]

Pavel Polynkin, Zhanna Samsonova, Alexander Englesbe, Adrian Lucero, Jennifer Elle, and Andreas Schmitt-Sody

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(11), 3024-3029 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Diffraction-ray tube analysis of ultrashort high-intensity laser pulse filamentation in air

Yury Geints, Olga Minina, and Alexander Zemlyanov

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(11), 3209-3217 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Randomized spectral sampling for efficient simulation of laser propagation through optical turbulence

Daniel A. Paulson, Chensheng Wu, and Christopher C. Davis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(11), 3249-3262 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Filamentation-assisted plasma lifetime measurements in atomic and molecular gases via third-harmonic enhancement

Christoph Jusko, Abhishek Sridhar, Elisa Appi, Liping Shi, Uwe Morgner, and Milutin Kovacev

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 36(12), 3505-3513 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF