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Filamentation control in the temperature gradient argon gas

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A novel technique of controlling the evolution of the filamentation was experimentally demonstrated in an argon gas-filled tube. The entrance of the filament was heated by a furnace and the other end was cooled with air, which resulted in the temperature gradient distribution along the tube. The experimental results show that multiple filaments are merged into a single filament and then no filament by only increasing the temperature at the entrance of the filament. Also, the filament can appear and disappear after increasing the local temperature and input pulse energy in turn. This technique offers another degree of freedom to control the filamentation and opens a new way for multi-mJ level monocycle pulse generation through filamentation in the noble gas.

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  1. Institute of Quantum Electronics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    S.-Y. Cao, Z. Wang & Z.-G. Zhang

  2. Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Technical Science, EMC, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    W.-P. Kong, Z.-M. Song, Y. Qin, Q.-Y. Wang & Z.-G. Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 800-211, Shanghai, 201800, China

    R.-X. Li

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Cao, SY., Kong, WP., Wang, Z. et al. Filamentation control in the temperature gradient argon gas. Appl. Phys. B 94, 265–271 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-008-3337-3

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