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Optics, Quantum Electronics

Mechanism of self-focusing of laser pulses on dynamic lenses in transparent media

S. V. Gribin, B. I. Spesivtsev

St. Petersburg State Technological University for Plant and Polymers

Abstract: We propose the physical and mathematical models for the mechanism explaining the reduction in experimental breakdown thresholds of optical materials by self-focusing of radiation on dynamic irregularities of the refractive index (dynamic lenses) as compared to avalanche ionization and multiphoton absorption predicted by theories.

Received: 11.04.2011
Accepted: 15.08.2011

 English version: Technical Physics, 2012, 57:5, 649–656

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