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Influence of a pinhole diameter on the experimental determination of critical power for femtosecond filamentation in air

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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 30, 期 25, 页码 44886-44895

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.475393

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province
  3. Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province
  4. Innovation Group of Jinan
  5. [12074228]
  6. [11874056]
  7. [11774038]
  8. [ZR2021MA023]
  9. [tsqn201812043]
  10. [2020GXRC039]

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This paper investigates the influence of pinhole diameter on the determination of the filamentation critical power and finds that the obtained critical power tends to a reasonable value as the decrease of the pinhole diameter.
Filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical media has attracted great attention due to its various unique characteristics and potential applications. It is an important task to determine the critical power for the filamentation especially in many applications, which can be obtained by evaluating the transmitted pulse energy through a pinhole located in the filamentation region as a function of input laser energy. The pinhole diameter is very crucial to the measurement. However, there is no report on the experimental determination of critical power for filamentation in air by using the pinhole method and the influence of the pinhole diameter on the determination. In this paper, we numerically and experimentally investigate the influence of pinhole diameter on the determination of the filamentation critical power. The obtained critical power tends to a reasonable value as the decrease of the pinhole diameter, because the transmitted energy through the pinhole with a smaller diameter is more sensitive to the change of energy distribution in the beam cross section during the beginning process of filamentation. Under our experimental condition, the pinhole diameter as small as similar to 50 mu m is applicable to be used to determine the critical power for filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses in air.

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