Light bullets from a femtosecond filament

The scenario of the formation of light bullets in the presence of anomalous group velocity dispersion is presented within the same general scenario for condensed matter and humid air. The temporal and spectral parameters of light bullets during filamentation in fused silica and humid air are obtained. A light bullet (LB) is a short-lived formation in a femtosecond filament with a high spatiotemporal light field localization. The sequence formation of the quasi-periodical LB is obtained numerically and is confirmed experimentally by autocorrelation measurements of the LB's duration. The estimation of the LB duration reaches few-cycle value. It is established that the generation of each LB is accompanied by the ejection of a supercontinuum (SC) in the visible spectrum and an isolated anti-Stokes wing is formed in the visible area of the SC as a result of destructive interference of broadband spectral components. It was found that the energy of a visible SC increases discretely according to the number of LBs in the filament. We demonstrated that the model of ionization in solid dielectric which is used in numerical simulation fundamentally affects the obtained scenario of LB formation. The possibility of the formation of LBs under the filamentation of middle-IR pulses in the atmosphere was shown with numerical simulation.