Filamentation of arbitrary polarized femtosecond laser pulses in case of high-order Kerr effect

Opt Lett. 2013 Feb 15;38(4):537-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.000537.

Abstract

We developed a model of femtosecond filamentation which includes high-order Kerr effect and an arbitrary polarization of a laser pulse. We show that a circularly polarized pulse has maximum filament intensity. Also, we show that, independently of the initial pulse polarization, the value of a maximum filament intensity tends to the maximum intensity of either linearly or circularly polarized pulse.