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Diffraction-enhanced femtosecond white-light filaments in air

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Here we demonstrate filamentation and generation of intense white light supercontinuum from a weakly focused femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser pulses modified by a partial laser beam blocking by the knife edge. Though the spectral broadening of the filamented laser pulses was observed both in the blue and red sides of the fundamental wavelength, most distinct was the broadband white-light emission covering the whole visible spectral range. The dominant filamentation and supercontinuum generation enhancement mechanism was found to be the diffraction-induced laser beam intensity modification.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant agreement no 654148 Laserlab-Europe. IB and UM are thankful to financial support of DFG (MO 850-19/2, MO 850-20/1, BA 4156/4-2).

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  1. Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 10, Vilnius, 10223, Lithuania

    V. Vaičaitis, R. Butkus & O. Balachninaitė

  2. Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University of Hannover, D30167, Hannover, Germany

    U. Morgner & I. Babushkin

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Vaičaitis, V., Butkus, R., Balachninaitė, O. et al. Diffraction-enhanced femtosecond white-light filaments in air. Appl. Phys. B 124, 221 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-7090-y

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