Preventing laser beam filamentation through use of the squeezed vacuum

Boyd, Robert W. ; Agarwal, G. S. (1999) Preventing laser beam filamentation through use of the squeezed vacuum Physical Review A, 59 (4). R2587-R2589. ISSN 1050-2947

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Official URL: http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v59/i4/pR2587_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.59.R2587

Abstract

We show that the tendency of a laser beam to break into a filamentary structure in passing through a nonlinear optical medium can be largely suppressed by proper tailoring of the vacuum field that interacts with the laser beam.

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