Ultrafast Intense Laser Filamentation and Beyond

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention on a forthcoming special issue of Photonics devoted to the field of filamentation and beyond.

This Special Issue will provide an overview of the present status of this field in order to bring together researchers’ innovative findings and foster future developments.

The issue is open to papers that address the following issues:

• Theoretical advances on filamentation;
• Self-focusing and collapse;
• Filamentation in various media;
• Supercontinuum generation and pulse compression;
• Filamentation control;
• Terahertz science with filaments;
• Strong field–matter interactions;
• Filament-based spectroscopy and lasing;
• Atmospheric applications and weather control;
• Laser machining and industrial applications with filaments;
• Ultrashort laser technologies and new high-intensity mid-IR sources, Mid-IR filamentation;
• Cross-disciplinary

Novel concepts related to these topics and beyond are particularly welcome.

On the basis of your ongoing key contributions to this field, we invite you to submit original papers, which describe exciting results in the above-mentioned areas, to this Special Issue by 1 May 2023.

The issue will be edited by Stelios Tzortzakis, Olga Kosareva and Tie-Jun Wang.

Should you have any questions regarding the preparation of manuscripts or the suitability of your work for this issue, please do not hesitate to contact the Photonics editorial team. We look forward to hearing from you and hope to welcome you as a contributing author.

Best wishes,

Prof. Dr. Stelios Tzortzakis
Prof. Dr. Olga Kosareva
Prof. Dr. Tie-Jun Wang
Guest Editors

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