• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 4, Issue 5, B29 (2016)
Si-Min Li1, Zhi-Cheng Ren1, Ling-Jun Kong1, Sheng-Xia Qian1..., Chenghou Tu1,2, Yongnan Li1 and Hui-Tian Wang1,3,4,5|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2e-mail: tuchenghou@nankai.edu.cn
  • 3National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 4Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 5e-mail: htwang@nju.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.4.000B29 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Si-Min Li, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Ling-Jun Kong, Sheng-Xia Qian, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang, "Unveiling stability of multiple filamentation caused by axial symmetry breaking of polarization," Photonics Res. 4, B29 (2016) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Femtosecond laser filamentation is generally initialized from unpredictable symmetry breaking caused by random noise, causing it to be barely controlled. However, it is always anticipated for stable and controllable filamentation. We present and demonstrate the idea that hybridly polarized vector fields with axial symmetry broken polarization, associated with a pair of orthogonally linearly polarized vortices carrying the opposite-handed orbital angular momenta, could achieve controllable and robust multiple filamentation. Here, our motivation is to unveil the underlying physics behind such controllable and robust multiple filamentation. The symmetry breaking should first be actively controllable and then be able to effectively inhibit random noise. Robust multiple filamentation is inseparable from the fact that the phases between the multiple filaments are always locked. In contrast, uncontrollable multiple filamentation is always accompanied with loss of phase, i.e., the multiple filaments become incoherent to each other. Our results may offer a suggestion for achieving controllable and robust multiple filamentation in other systems.and Equipment Development Project (2012YQ17004); Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics.
    |Ψ=E0circ(ρ/r0){exp[j(mϕ+ϕ0)](|H+|V)+exp[j(mϕ+ϕ0)](|H|V)},(1a)

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    =2E0circ(ρ/r0){cos(mϕ+ϕ0)|H+exp(jπ/2)sin(mϕ+ϕ0)|V},(1b)

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    |ψ=A0Q[cos(mφ+φ0)|H+exp(jπ/2)sin(mφ+φ0)|V],(2)

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    ψH/ζ=(j/4)2ψH+jPH(3)jPH(5),(3a)

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    ψV/ζ=(j/4)2ψV+jPV(3)jPV(5),(3b)

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    PH(3)=εPPC1(3|ψH|2ψH+2|ψV|2ψH+ψV2ψH*),(4a)

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    PH(5)=εP2PC2(5|ψH|4ψH+3|ψV|4ψH+2|ψV|2ψV2ψH*+3|ψH|2ψV2ψH*+ψH3ψV*2+6|ψH|2|ψV|2ψH),(4b)

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    Si-Min Li, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Ling-Jun Kong, Sheng-Xia Qian, Chenghou Tu, Yongnan Li, Hui-Tian Wang, "Unveiling stability of multiple filamentation caused by axial symmetry breaking of polarization," Photonics Res. 4, B29 (2016)
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