Measurement of high order Kerr refractive index of major air components: erratum

V. Loriot (1) , E. Hertz (1) , O. Faucher (1) , B. Lavorel (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

A clarification is missing concerning the high order Kerr non-linearities deduced from our experimental data published in [1]. Here, we rectify this omission by making explicit the distinction between cross-Kerr and Kerr effects, and by extrapolating the value of the nonlinear refractive index for the last effect. Since the occurrence of sign inversion in the Kerr effect is not affected, the overall report in [1] remains valid.

Mots clés: Molecular alignment; plasma; laser filamentation; femtosecond; ) Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Domaines: Physique Atomique [physics.atom-ph]

V. Loriot, E. Hertz, O. Faucher, B. Lavorel. Measurement of high order Kerr refractive index of major air components: erratum. Optics Express, 2010, 18 (3), pp.3011-3012. ⟨hal-00452382⟩