Reversibility of laser filamentation.
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چکیده
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.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Optics express
دوره 22 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014