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The propagation of near-infrared ultra-short laser pulses in the regime of anomalous dispersion of transparent solids is associated with a host of self-induced effects including a significant spectral broadening extending from the ultraviolet into the infrared region, pulse self-compression down to few-cycle pulse durations, free and driven third harmonic generation, conical emission and the formation of stable filaments over several \(\mathop{\mathrm{cm}}\nolimits\) showing the emergence of conical light bullets. We review measurements performed in different experimental conditions and results of numerical simulations of unidirectional propagation models showing that the interpretation of all these phenomena proceeds from the formation of non-spreading conical light bullets during filamentation.
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We acknowledge support from the French National Agency for Research, the French DGA, the ONERA, the European Social Fund under the Global Grant measure (Grant No. VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-K-03-001), the Lithuanian Science Council, the Spanish Ministerio De Economia Y Competitividad (MINECO) through “Plan Nacional” (FIS2011-30465-C02-01) and the Catalan Agencia de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) with SGR 2014-2016. This research has been supported by Fundació Cellex Barcelona, LASERLAB-EUROPE grant agreement 284464 and COST Action MP1203. F.S. was partially supported by FCT-Fundaçãso para a Ciência e a Tecnologia grant SFRH/BD/69913/2010 and D.R.A. from the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship program, the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC GA 306559. We acknowledge support from the US Army Research Office MURI Program and the State of Florida.
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Couairon, A. et al. (2016). Filamentation and Pulse Self-compression in the Anomalous Dispersion Region of Glasses. In: Bandrauk, A., Lorin, E., Moloney, J. (eds) Laser Filamentation. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23084-9_6
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