Filamentation versus Optical Breakdown in Bulk Transparent Media

Eugenijus Gaiz̆auskas

Laser Research Center, Department of Quantum Electronics, University of Vilnius, Sauletekio al.9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

Eugenijus Gaiz̆auskas

Laser Research Center, Department of Quantum Electronics, University of Vilnius, Sauletekio al.9, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

Book Editor(s):Hiroaki Misawa,

Hiroaki Misawa

Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, North 21 – West 10, CRIS Bldg., Sapporo 001-0021, Japan

Saulius Juodkazis

Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, North 21 – West 10, CRIS Bldg., Sapporo 001-0021, Japan

First published: 06 June 2006

This chapter contains sections titled:

Introduction
Conical Waves: Tilted Pulses, Bessel Beams and X-type Waves
Dynamics of Short-pulse Splitting in Nonlinear Media with Normal Dispersion: Effects of Nonlinear Losses
On the Physics of Self-channeling: Beam Reconstruction from Conial Waves
Multi-filaments and Multi-focuses
- Multiple Flamentation in Bulk Transparent Media
- Capillary Waveguide from Femtosecond Filamentation
Filamentation Induced by Conical Wavepacket
Conclusion

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