https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920501004
Multi-mJ mid-IR light bullets in air
1 Photonics Institute, TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-387, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
2 Center for Physical Sciences & Technology, Savanoriu Ave. 231 LT-02300 Vilnius, Lithuania
3 Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
4 Russian Quantum Center, ul. Novaya 100, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, 143025 Russia
5 Dep. of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, 77843-4242, USA
6 Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Max-Wien Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
* Corresponding author: pugzlys@tuwien.ac.at
Published online: 16 April 2019
We examine mid-IR light bullets generated in ambient air. 2-optical cycle pulses confined in space are generated in filamentation regime. Few-fold solitonic self-compression is achieved for strongly chirped mid-IR pulses.
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