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Background reservoir: its crucial role for long-distance propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in air

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We report an experiment to demonstrate the crucial effect of the so-called background reservoir during the propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in air. The background reservoir was blocked by allowing only the filament to pass through a pinhole generated by the filament itself in an aluminum foil. We observed that the filamentation process is terminated immediately after the pinhole. Consequently, to achieve long-range filamentation, it is necessary to maintain the dynamic energy exchange between the reservoir and the self-foci.

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  1. Centre d’Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) and Département de Physique, de Génie Physique et d’Optique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada

    W. Liu, J.-F. Gravel, F. Théberge & S. L. Chin

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01187, Dresden, Germany

    W. Liu & A. Becker

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Liu, W., Gravel, JF., Théberge, F. et al. Background reservoir: its crucial role for long-distance propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in air. Appl. Phys. B 80, 857–860 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-1805-6

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