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Extreme laser radiation: physics and fundamental applications

Influence of laser radiation polarisation on small-scale self-focusing in isotropic crystals

V. N. Ginzburg, A. A. Kochetkov, M. S. Kuz'mina, K. F. Burdonov, A. A. Shaikin, E. A. Khazanov

Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod

Abstract: The gain of spatial noise in the field of an intense linearly polarised wave, propagating in a BaF₂ cubic crystal with orientation [001], is directly measured. The previously predicted strong dependence of the evolution of small-scale self-focusing on the angle between the radiation polarisation vector and the crystallographic axis of crystal is demonstrated.

Keywords: small-scale self-focusing, cubic crystals, anisotropy of cubic nonlinearity, B-integral.

Received: 06.02.2017

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2017, 47:3, 248–251

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