Englesbe, Alexander C. and He, Zhaohan and Nees, John A. and Thomas, Alexander G. R. and Schmitt-Sody, Andreas and Krushelnick, Karl (2016) Control of the configuration of multiple femtosecond filaments in air by adaptive wavefront manipulation. Optics Express, 24 (6). pp. 6071-6082. ISSN 1094-4087
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We demonstrate the ability to position single and multiple filaments arbitrarily within the energy reservoir of a high power femtosecond laser pulse. A deformable mirror controlled by a genetic algorithm finds the optimal phase profile for producing filaments at user-defined locations within the energy reservoir to within a quarter of the nominal filament size, on average. This proof-of-principle experiment demonstrates a potential technique for fast control of the configuration of the filaments. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America