Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Ultrafast Nonlinear Light-Matter Coupling associated with Filamentation in Transparent Media

MURI Publications

2015

Jakobsen, Per "Exact formula for the high harmonic response of a strongly driven two-level system" Physica Scripta 2015, 90, 2 (2015)

D. L. Weerawarne, B. Shim, X. Gao, and A. L. Gaeta, "Higher-order nonlinearities revisited and their effect on harmonic generation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 093901 (2015)

Daniel D. Hickstein, Franklin J. Dollar, Patrik Grychtol, Jennifer L. Ellis, Ronny Knut, Carlos Hernández-García, Dmitriy Zusin, Christian Gentry, Justin M. Shaw, Tingting Fan, Kevin M. Dorney, Andreas Becker, Agnieszka Jaron-Becker, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Charles G. Durfee "Non-collinear generation of angularly isolated circularly polarized high harmonics", Nature Photonics, 181, advance online publication SP - EP http://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.181 (2015)

Meier, A. K., Iliev, M., Squier, J. A., & Durfee, C. G. "Broadband interferometric characterization of divergence and spatial chirp. Optics Letters, 40(17), 4066-4069 (2015)

Schmitt-Sody, D. French, W. White, A. Lucero, W. Roach, V. Hasson, "The importance of corona generation and leader formation during laser filament guided discharges in air" Appl. Phys. Lett. 106 (2015)

P. Panagiotopoulos, P. Whalen, M. Kolesik, and J. V. Moloney, "Super high power mid-infrared femtosecond light bullet," Nat Photon 9, 543-548 (2015)

Matteo Clerici, Yi Hu, Philippe Lassonde, Carles Milián, Arnaud Couairon, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Zhigang Chen, Luca Razzari, François Vidal, François Légaré, Daniele Faccio, Roberto Morandotti, "Laser-assisted guiding of electric discharges around objects," Sci. Adv. 1(5), 1400111 (2015).

J. Zhao, I. D. Chremmos, D. Song, D. N. Christodoulides, N. K. Efremidis, and Z. Chen, "Curved singular beams for three-dimensional particle manipulation," Scientific Reports, 5, 12086, (2015).

M. S. Mills, M. Heinrich, M. Kolesik, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Extending optical filaments using auxiliary dress beams," Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 48, 094014 (2015).

Paris Panagiotopoulos, Patrick Whalen, Miroslav Kolesik, and Jerome V. Moloney "Carrier field shock formation of long-wavelength femtosecond pulses in single-crystal diamond and air", Journals of the Optical Society of America B, 32, 1718 (2015)

C. G. Durfee and J. A. Squier, " Breakthroughs in Photonics 2014: Spatiotemporal Focusing: Advances and Applications", Photonics Journal, IEEE, 7, 1, (2015)

K. Schuh, J. Hader, J. V. Moloney, and S. W. Koch "Influence of optical and interaction-induced dephasing effects on the short-pulse ionization of atomic gases" J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32(7), 1442 (2015)

D.A. Romanov, A.I. Filin, and R.J. Levis, "Control of spectral interference patterns in broad Rabi sidebands toward quasi-comb structures", Optics Letters, 40(5), 717 (2015).

M. Kolesik, J. M. Brown, A. Teleki, P. Jakobsen, J. V. Moloney and E. M. Wright "Metastable electronic states and nonlinear response for high-intensity optical pulses" Optica, 1, 323 (2015)

M. Tarazkar, D.A. Romanov, and R.J. Levis, "Theoretical study of second-order hyperpolarizability for nitrogen radical cation", J. Phys. B, 48, 094019 (2015)

Whalen, P; Brio, M; Moloney, JV "Exponential time-differencing with embedded Runge-Kutta adaptive step control", Journal of Computational Physics, 280, 579 (2015)

A. Spott, A. Becker, and A. Jaron-Becker, "Transition from perturbative to nonperturbative interaction in low-order-harmonic generation" Phys. Rev. A 91, 023402 (2015)

Iliev M, Meier AK, Greco M, Durfee CG. "Nonlinear dynamics of double-pass cross-polarized wave generation in the saturation regime", Appl. Opt., 54, 219 (2015)

2014

Jakobsen, Per "Bidirectional pulse propagation equation for extreme nonlinear optics" Physica Scripta, 89, 9 (2014)

Iliev, M., Meier, A. K., Galloway, B., Adams, D. E., Squier, J. A., & Durfee, C. G. "Measurement of energy contrast of amplified ultrashort pulses using cross-polarized wave generation and spectral interferometry" Optics Express, 22, 17968 (2014)

He, F., Zeng, B., Chu, W., Ni, J., Sugioka, K., Cheng, Y., & Durfee, C. G. "Characterization and control of peak intensity distribution at the focus of a spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser beam", Optics Express, 22(8), 9734-9748 (2014)

T. Roger, D. Majus, G. Tamosauskas, P. Panagiotopoulos, M. Kolesik, G. Genty, I. Grazuleviciute, A. Dubietis, and D. Faccio, "Extreme events in resonant radiation from three-dimensional light bullets," Phys. Rev. A 90, 033816 (2014)

A. Laurain, M. Scheller, P. Polynkin, "Low-threshold bidirectional air lasing", Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253901 (2014) [Viewpoint: "A breakthrough for remote lasing in air" by G. Steinmeyer, Physics 7, 129 (2014)]

M. Kolesik, J. M. Brown, J. V. Moloney, and D. Faccio, "History-dependent effects in subcycle-waveform strong-field ionization", Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 90, No. 3, 033414 (2014)

Schmitt-Sody, A. Lucero, D. French, W. Latham, W. White, W. Roach "Electric Field Measurements during lament guided discharge" Optical Engineering, 53 (2014)

Schmitt-Sody, A. Lucero, B, Kamer, D. French, "Plasma Generation by Laser Filamentation in Air" IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science, Special Issue, (2014)

Patrick Whalen, Paris Panagiotopolous, Miroslav Kolesik and Jerome V. Moloney, "Extreme carrier shocking of intense long-wavelength pulses", Physical Review A, 89, 023850 (2014).

K. Schuh, J. Hader, J. V. Moloney and S. W. Koch, "Influence of many-body interactions during the ionization of gases by short intense optical pulses", Physical Review E, 89, 033103 (2014).

K. Schuh, J. Hader, J. V. Moloney and S. W. Koch, "Quantum theory of terahertz emission due to ultrashort pulse ionization of gases" Physical Review E, 88, 063102 (2014).

K. Schuh, M. Kolesik, E.M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney "Simple model for the nonlinear optical response of gases in the transparency region" Optical Letters, 29, 5089 (2014).

J. Liu, M. Brio, and J. V. Moloney, "Transformation optics based local mesh refinement for solving Maxwell's equations", Journal of computational Physics, 258C, 359 (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.10.048.

Maik Scheller, Xi Chen, Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Norman Born, Jerome Moloney, Miroslav Kolesik, and Pavel Polynkin, "Raman conversion in intense femtosecond Bessel beams in air", Physical Review A, 89, 053805 (2014).

Maik Scheller, Matthew S Mills, Mohammad-Ali Miri, Weibo Cheng, Jerome V. Moloney, Miroslav Kolesik, Pavel Polynkin, Demetrios N Christodoulides, "Externally refuelled optical filaments", Nature Photonics, 8, 297 (2014).

Craig Ament, Lee Johnson, Andreas Schmitt-Sody, Adrian Lucero, Thomas Milster, and Pavel Polynkin,"Generation of multi-terawatt vortex laser beams", Applied Optics, 53, 3359 (2014).

M. Kolesik and J.V. Moloney "Modeling and Simulation Techniques in Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Gaseous and Condensed Media", Rep. Prog. Phys, 77, 016401 (2014).

A. Spott, A. Jaron-Becker and A. Becker "Ab initio and perturbative calculations of the electric susceptibility of atomic hydrogen", Physical Review A, 90, 013426 (2014).

Gemmer, J. A., Venkataramani, S. C., Durfee, C. G., & Moloney, J. V. "Optical beam shaping and diffraction free waves: A variational approach", Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 283, 15 (2014). doi:10.1016/j.physd.2014.06.003

Iliev, M., Meier, A. K., Galloway, B., Adams, D. E., Squier, J. A., & Durfee, C. G. "Measurement of energy contrast of amplified ultrashort pulses using cross-polarized wave generation and spectral interferometry" Optics Express, 22, 17968 (2014).

He, F., Zeng, B., Chu, W., Ni, J., Sugioka, K., Cheng, Y., & Durfee, C. G. "Characterization and control of peak intensity distribution at the focus of a spatiotemporally focused femtosecond laser beam" Optics Express, 22, 9734 (2014). doi:10.1364/OE.22.009734

J. Cornelius, J. Liu, and M. Brio, "Finite-difference time-domain simulation of spacetime cloak", Optics Express, 22, 12087, 2014.

M. Tarazkar, D.A. Romanov, and R.J. Levis, "Higher-order nonlinearity of refractive index: The case of argon", J. Chem. Phys. 140, 214316 (2014).

M Scheller, N Born, W Cheng, P Polynkin, "Channeling the electrical breakdown of air by optically heated plasma filaments",Optica, 1, 125 (2014).

Amanda K. Meier, Michael Greco and Charles G. Durfee "Characterization techniques for aligning spatio-temporal focused ultrafast pulses", in CLEO:2014, OSA Technical Digest (online), paper STu3E.1. (2014)

N. Born, M. Scheller, M. Koch and J. V. Moloney, "Cavity enhanced terahertz modulation", Applied Physics Letters, 104, 103508 (2014)

M. Tarazkar, D.A. Romanov, and R.J. Levis, "High-order nonlinear refractive indices for He, Ne, Kr, and Xe atoms", Phys. Rev. A, 90(6), 062514(1-10) (2014)

2013

Kartashov, S. Alisauskas, A. Baltuska, A. Schmitt-Sody, W. Roach, P. Polynkin "Remotely pumped stimulated emission at 337 nm in atmospheric nitrogen" Phys. Rev. A 88, 041805 (2013)

J. Andreasen, E.M. Wright, M. Kolesik, "Optical Response of Atomic Gases to Ultrafast Pump-Probe Pulses", Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of, 49, 1088 (2013).

J. Andreasen, M. Kolesik, "Efficient simulation of unidirectional pulse propagation in high-contrast nonlinear nanowaveguides", Nanoscale Systems: Mathematical Modeling, Theory and Applications, 2, 157 (2013).

X. Chen, P. Polynkin, and M. Kolesik, "Raman effect in self-focusing of few-cycle laser pulses in air", Optics Letters, 38, 2017 (2013).

P. Polynkin and M. Kolesik, "Critical power for self-focusing in the case of ultrashort laser pulses", Physical Review A, 87, 053829 (2013).

B. Pasenow, C. Dineen, J. Hader, M. Brio, J.V. Moloney, S.W. Koch, S.H. Chen, A.A. Becker and A. Jaron-Becker, "Anisotropic terahertz response from strong-field ionized electron-ion plasma", Physical Review E, 87, 033106 (2013).

P. Polynkin, C. Ament, J. Moloney, "Self-focusing of ultraintense femtosecond optical vortices in air", Physical Review Letters, 111, 023901 (2013)

C. Hernández-García, J. A. Pérez-Hernández, T. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, and L. Plaja "Zeptosecond High Harmonic keV X-Ray Waveforms Driven by Midinfrared Laser Pulses", Physical Review Letters, 111, 033002 (2013)

J. Andreasen and M. Kolesik "Mid-infrared femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in hollow waveguides: A comparison of simulation methods", Physical Review E, 87, 053303 (2013)

Perez-Leija, F. Soto-Eguibar, S. Chavez-Cerda, A. Szameit, H. Moya-Cessa, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Discrete-like diffraction dynamics in free space", Optics Express, 21, 17951 (2013).

Z. Zhang, P. Zhang , M. Mills, Z. Chen, D. N. Christodoulides, and J. Liu, "Trapping aerosols with optical bottle arrays generated through a superposition of multiple Airy beams", Chinese Optics Letters, 11, 033502 (2013).

M. A. Bandres, I. Kaminer, M. Mills, B.M. Rodríguez-Lara, E. Greenfield, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Accelerating Optical Beams", Optics and Photonics News, 24, 30 (2013).

M. S. Mills, M. Kolesik, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Dressed optical filaments", Optics Letters, 38, 25 (2013).

D.A. Romanov, R.J. Levis, "Evolution of laser microfilaments in the wake of a femtosecond driving pulse", Phys. Rev. A, 87(6), 063410(8) (2013).

Charles G. Durfee, John Gemmer and Jerome V. Moloney "Phase-only shaping algorithm for Gaussian-apodized Bessel beams", Optical Express, 21(3) 15777 (2013).

E. Block, M. Greco, D. Vitek, O. Masihzadeh, D. A. Ammar, M. Y. Kahook, N. Mandava, C. Durfee, and J. Squier, "Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing for tissue ablation", Biomed. Opt. Express, 4, 6, p. 831, (2013).

Charles G. Durfee, Michael Greco, Erica Block, Dawn Vitek, and Jeff A. Squier, "Intuitive Analysis Of Ultrafast Pulse Propagation Through Angularly Dispersive Structures", invited book chapter New Developments in Photon and Materials Research, ed. J. I. Jang (NOVA Science, 2013).

2012

Pavel Polynkin, "Mobilities of O2+ and O2- ions in femtosecond laser filaments in air", Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 164102 (2012)

J. M. Brown, E. M. Wright, J. V. Moloney, M. Kolesik, "On the relative roles of higher-order non-linearity and ionization in ultrafast light-matter interactions", Optics Letters, 37, 10 (2012).

S. Chen, X. Gao, J. Li, A. Becker and A. Jaron-Becker "Application of a numerical-basis-state method to strong-field excitation and ionization of hydrogen atoms", Physical Review A, 86, 013410 (2012).

M. Kolesik, P. Jakobsen, J. V. Moloney "Quantifying the limits of unidirectional ultrashort optical pulse propagation", Physical Review A, 86, 035801, (2012).

P. Whalen, J. V. Moloney, A. C. Newell and M. Kolesik, "Optical shock and blow-up of ultrashort pulses in transparent media", Physical Review A, 86, 033806 (2012).

T. Graf, D. N. Christodoulides, M. S. Mills, J. V. Moloney, S. C. Venkataramani and E. M. Wright, "Propagation of Gaussian-apodized paraxial beams through first-order optical systems via complex coordinate transforms and ray transfer matrices", Journal in the Optical Society of America A, 29, 9 (2012).

P. Jakobsen and J.V. Moloney, "The effect of longitudinal electric field components on the propagation of intense ultrashort optical pulses", Physica D, 241, 1603 (2012).

Durfee, C. G., Greco, M., Block, E., Vitek, D., & Squier, J. A. "Intuitive analysis of space-time focusing with double-ABCD calculation", Optics Express, 20, 14244 (2012).

T. Popmintchev, M. C. Chen, D. Popmintchev, P. Arpin, S. Ališauskas, G. Andriukaitis, T. Balciunas, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuška, B. Shim, A. Gaeta, C. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Plaja, A. Becker, A. Jaron-Becker, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn, "Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-Ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers", Science 336, 1287 (2012).

M. Kolesik, E. M. Wright, J. Andreasen, D. Carlson, J.R. Jones, "Space-time resolved simulation of femtosecond nonlinear light-matter interactions using a holistic quantum atomic model: Application to near-threshold harmonics", Optics Express, 20, 16113-16128 (2012).

C. Ament, M. Kolesik, J. V. Moloney, P. Polynkin, "Self-focusing of ultraintense accelerating Airy waveforms in water", Phys. Rev. A, 86, 043842 (2012).

P. Polynkin, B. Pasenhow, N. Driscoll, M. Scheller, E. M. Wright, J. V. Moloney, "Seeded optically driven avalanche ionization in molecular and noble gases", Phys. Rev. A, 86, 043410 (2012).

D. A. Romanov, R. J. Levis, "Post-ionization medium evolution in a laser filament: A uniquely non-plasma response", Phys. Rev E, 86, 046408 (2012).

Odhner, J. H., Romanov, D. A., McCole, E. T., Wahlstrand, J. K., Milchberg, H. M., Levis R. J., "Ionization-Grating-Induced Nonlinear Phase Accumulation in Spectrally-Resolved Transient Birefringence Measurements at 400 nm J", Physical Review Letters, 10, 065003, (2012).

A. Picon, A. Jaron-Becker, and A. Becker "Enhancement of vibrational excitation and dissociation of H2+ in infrared laser pulses", Physical Review Letters, 109, 163002 (2012).

J. Andreasen and M. Kolesik, "Nonlinear propagation of light in structured media: generalized unidirectional pulse propagation equations", Phys. Rev., 86, 036706 (2012).

J. J. Liu, M. Brio and J. V. Moloney, "Computation of Optical Forces on Nanoparticles using FDTD Technique", JEMA, 4, 452 (2012).

J. J. Liu, M. Brio and J. V. Moloney, "Subpixel smoothing Finite-Difference Time-Domain method for material interface between dielectric and dispersive media", Optics letters, 37, 4802 (2012).

T. Graf, J.V. Moloney, and S.C. Venkataramani, "Asymptotic Analysis of Weakly Nonlinear Bessel-Gauss Beams", Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 243, 32, (2012).

M.S. Mills, G. A. Siviloglou, N. Efremidis, T. Graf, E.M. Wright, J.V. Moloney, and D.N. Christodoulides, "Localized waves with spherical harmonic symmetries", Physical Review A (2012).

M. Kolesik, P. Whalen and J. V. Moloney, "Theory and Simulation of Ultrafast Intense Pulse Propagation in Extended Media", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 18, 1 (2012).

K. Glasner, M. Kolesik, J. V. Moloney and A. Newell, "Canonical and Singular Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in a Nonlinear Medium", International Journal of Optics, 2012, 868274 (2012).

B. Shim, S. E. Schrauth, A. L. Gaeta, M. Klein, and G. Fibich, "Loss-of-Phase with Collapsing Beams", Physics Review Letters, 108, 043902 (2012).

Gombojav O. Ariunbold, Pavel Polynkin, and Jerome V. Moloney, "Third and fifth harmonics generation by tightly focused femtosecond pulses at 2.2 ?m wavelength in air", Optics Express, 20, 2 (2012).

B. Pasenow, J.V. Moloney, S.W. Koch, S.H. Chen, A. Becker and A. Jaron-Becker, "Nonequilibrium Evolution of Strong-Field Anisotropic Ionized Electrons Towards a Delayed Plasma-State", Optics Express, 20, 3 (2012).

2011

A. Couairon, E. Brambilla, T. Corti and M. Kolesik, "Practitioner's guide to laser pulse propagation models and simulation", European Physical Journal-Special Topics, 199, 5 (2011).

J. M. Brown, A. Lotti, A. Teleki and M. Kolesik "Exactly Solvable Model for Nonlinear Light-Matter Interaction in an Arbitrary Time-Dependent Field", Physical Review A, 84, 063424 (2011).

P. R. Hemmer, R. B. Miles, P. Polynkin, T. Siebert, A. V. Sokolov, P. Sprangle, and M. O. Scully, "Standoff spectroscopy via remote generation of a backward-propagating laser beam", PNAS, 108, 3130 (2011).

S. E. Schrauth, B. Shim, A. D. Slepkov, L. T. Vuong, A. L. Gaeta, N. Gavish, and G. Fibich, "Pulse splitting in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime," Opt. Express, 19, 9157-9171 (2011).

C. Ament, P. Polynkin, J. Moloney, "Supercontinuum Generation with Femtosecond Self-Healing Airy Pulses", Physics Review Letters, 107, 243901 (2011).

I. Chremmos, P. Zhang, J. Prakash, N. Efremidis, D. N. Christodoulides, and Z. Chen, "Fourier-space generation of abruptly autofocusing beams and optical bottle beams", Optics Letters, 36, 3675 (2011).

Odhner, J.H., Levis, R.J., "Direct Phase and Amplitude Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Undergoing Filamentation in Air", Optics Letters, 37(10) 1775-1777 (2011).

Odhner, J.H., McCole, E.T., Levis, R.J., "Filament-Driven Impulsive Raman Spectroscopy", Physical Chemistry A, 115 (46), 13407-13412 (2011).

P. Whalen, J. V. Moloney, M. Kolesik "Self-Focusing Collapse Distance in Ultrashort Pulses and Measurement of Nonlinear Index", Optics Letters, 36, 13, 2542-2544 (2011).

P. Zhang, Z. Zhang, J. Prakash, S. Huang, D. Hernandez, M. Salazar, D. N. Christodoulides, and Z. Chen, "Trapping and transporting aerosols with a single optical bottle beam generated by Moiré techniques", Optics Letters, 36, 1491 (2011).

K. Glasner, M. Kolesik, J. Moloney and A. Newell , "Canonical and Singular Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in a Nonlinear Medium", International Journal of Optics, 2012, Article ID 868274 (2011).

P. Zhang, J. Prakash, Z. Zhang, M. Mills, N. Efremidis, D. Christodoulides, and Z. Chen, "Trapping and guiding micro-particles with morphing auto-focusing Airy beams", Optics Letters, 36, 2883 (2011).

P. Polynkin, M. Kolesik, E. Wright, J. Moloney, "Experimental tests of the new paradigm for laser filamentation in gases", Physical Review Letters, PRL 106, 153902 (2011).

Stacy Shiffler, Pavel Polynkin and Jerome Moloney, "Self-focusing of femtosecond diffraction-resistant vortex beams in water", Optics Letters, 36, 3834 (2011).

Pavel Polynkin and Jerome V. Moloney, "Optical Breakdown of Air Triggered by Femtosecond Laser Filaments", Applied Physics Letters, 99, 151103 (2011).

I. Kaminer, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams", Physical Review Letters, PRL 106, 213903 (2011).

I. Chremmos, N. K. Efremidis, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Pre-engineered abruptly autofocusing beams", Optics Letters, 36, 1890 (2011).

D. G. Papazoglou, N. K. Efremidis, D. N. Christodoulides, and S. Tzortzakis, "Observation of abruptly autofocusing waves", Optics Letters, 36, 1842 (2011).

2010

N. K. Efremidis and D. N. Christodoulides, "Abruptly autofocusing waves", Optics Letters, 35, 4045 (2010).

W. Chong. H. Renninger, D. N. Christodoulides, and F. W. Wise, "Versatile Airy-Bessel light bullets", Optics and Photonics News, December issue, Optics in 2010, 52 (2010).