Reversibility of laser filamentation

Abstract

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.

12 pages, 3 figures

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• Ultrashort filaments of light in weakly-ionized, optically-transparent media
• Higher-order Kerr terms allow ionization-free filamentation in gases
• Transition from plasma- to Kerr-driven laser filamentation
• High-field quantum calculation reveals time-dependent negative Kerr contribution

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