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Measurement and calculation of nonlinear absorption associated with femtosecond filaments in water

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We investigate the filamentation dynamics of 200 fs, 527 nm laser pulses in water. By comparing the experimental results with the numerical simulations that use an extended propagation model, the influence of several physical effects, particularly nonlinear losses and free electron plasma generation, is studied. It is shown that a set of relevant numerical values, related to multiphoton absorption, can be extracted with reasonable accuracy.

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  1. Department of Quantum Electronics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio Avenue 9, Bldg. 3, 10222, Vilnius, Lithuania

    A. Dubietis, E. Kučinskas, G. Tamošauskas & E. Gaižauskas

  2. Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS UMR 7644, École Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    A. Couairon

  3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM) and Department of Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    D. Faccio & P. Di Trapani

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Dubietis, A., Couairon, A., Kučinskas, E. et al. Measurement and calculation of nonlinear absorption associated with femtosecond filaments in water. Appl. Phys. B 84, 439–446 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-006-2249-3

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