Porras Miguel A, Parola Alberto
Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Rios Rosas 21, 28003 Madrid, Spain.
Opt Lett. 2008 Aug 1;33(15):1738-40. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.001738.
Collapse of a Gaussian beam in self-focusing Kerr media arrested by nonlinear losses may lead to the spontaneous formation of a quasi-stationary nonlinear unbalanced Bessel beam with finite energy, which can propagate without significant distortion over tens of diffraction lengths, and without peak intensity attenuation while the beam power is drastically diminishing.