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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 90, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.203902
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Analyses of many different types of nonlinear wave equations indicate that a collapsing wave will transform into a universal blowup profile regardless of its initial shape; that is, the amplitude of the wave increases as the spatial extent decreases in a self-similar fashion. We show experimentally that the spatial profile of a collapsing optical wave evolves to a specific circularly symmetric shape, known as the Townes profile, for elliptically shaped or randomly distorted input beams. These results represent the first experimental confirmation of this universal collapsing behavior and provide deeper insight into the high-power filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses in air.
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