Fibich Gadi, Eisenmann Shmuel, Ilan Boaz, Erlich Yossi, Fraenkel Moshe, Henis Zohar, Gaeta Alexander, Zigler Arie
Opt Express. 2005 Jul 25;13(15):5897-903. doi: 10.1364/opex.13.005897.
We show numerically for continuous-wave beams and experimentally for femtosecond pulses propagating in air, that the collapse distance of intense laser beams in a bulk Kerr medium scales as 1/P;1/2 for input powers P that are moderately above the critical power for self focusing, but that at higher powers the collapse distance scales as 1/P.